And check the Downloads page for a new Parent Power YouTube video.
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
(Happy Everything CD)
Take me out to the ball game.
Take me out to the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks.
I don’t care if we never get back,
For I’ll root, root, root for the home team.
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out
At the old ball game.
Activities: Have children talk about different ball games they have attended. Make a list of the different sporting events. Graph their favorite sport.
Make visors out of paper plates. Cut a crescent shape out of a plate as shown. Let children decorate with markers and crayons. Punch holes in either end and tie on strings to wear around the head.
How about some pom poms to cheer the team on? Take two lunch bags and draw lines from the top about halfway down as shown. Children decorate the bags with paint, crayons, or markers and then cut on the lines.
Roll up the bottom edge of the sack and wrap around rubber bands to make handles. Spell names and word wall words with this cheer:
Give me a “B.” “B.”
I’ve got a B, you’ve got a B.
Give me an “I.” “I.”
Give me an “L.” “L.”
I’ve got an L, you’ve got an L.
Give me an “L.” “L.”
I’ve got an L, you’ve got an L.
What’s it spell? Bill!
Say it again. Bill!
One more time. BILL!
Download the patterns for the popcorn game. Play the game to reinforce word wall words, letters, numerals, shapes, etc. You will find the patterns by using the Downloads button in the menu at the left.
OLD MacDONALD HAD A FARM
Old MacDonald
(Nursery Rhymes and Good Old Times CD)
Old MacDonald had a farm
E – I – E – I – O.
And on this farm he had a cow.
E – I – E – I - O.
With a “moo-moo” here,
And a “moo-moo” there.
Here a “moo,” there a “moo,”
Everywhere a “moo-moo.”
Old MacDonald had a farm
E – I – E – I – O.
Pig – oink, oink
Sheep – baa, baa
Horse – neigh, neigh
Duck – quack, quack
Cat – meow, meow
Dog – woof, woof
Activities: Suggest other animals that Old MacDonald could have on his farm.
Let the children make stick puppets or paper bag puppets of their favorite farm animal to hold up as you sing the song.
Use plastic farm animals or pictures of farm animals for a sorting activity. How many ways can the children think of to group the animals? Fur/feathers; mammals/birds; two feet/four feet; pets/not pets; and so forth.
Draw a T-chart on the board. Write the name for baby animals on the left and the name for grown animals on the right. Whisper the name of a different farm animal in each child’s ear. You can whisper the same animal in several children’s ears. When the teacher says, “Animal Round Up!” the children walk around the room making the noise of the animal the teacher whispered in their ear. They continue walking around until they find the friends making the same sound.
I KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO
SWALLOWED A FLY
I Know an Old Lady
(Keep on Singing and Dancing CD)
Sing this song in sign language. Check out aslpro.com for video clips.
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. (Touch thumb and index finger
and wiggle fingers.)
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she’ll cry. (Move index fingers by eyes as if crying.)
I know an old lady who swallowed a spider (Cross fingers and wiggle like
legs of a spider.)
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her…
Bird - How absurd to swallow a bird… (Open and close index finger and
thumb by mouth.)
Cat - Imagine that she swallowed a cat… (Pretend to pull whiskers from your mouth.)
Dog - What a hog to swallow a dog… (Pat leg as if calling a dog.)
Goat - Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat… (Index finger and middle
finger by chin and then on forehead like a beard and horns.)
Cow - I don’t know how she swallowed a cow… (Extend thumb and little finger to
make horn and place by the side of your head.)
Horse – This is a silly song, of course! (Wiggle index finger and middle
finger on head.)
Activities: Make an old lady puppet from a paper plate. Cut out the inside of the plate and decorate for the old lady’s head. Use a brad fastener to attach to the rim of the plate as shown. Cut arms and lets out of construction paper and staple to the sides. Tape a zip sandwich bag to the reverse side. Color and cut out the animals. Insert the animals in the zip bag as you sing.
Let the children make their own visual for this song. Can they lay the animals out in sequential order? Which one did she eat first? Fourth? Last? Call out words that rhyme with the animals and have children find the appropriate one to feed the old lady. Check out the Downloads for the Animal Patterns.
Read I KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A PIE and other versions of this song.
Challenge children to make up their own rhymes for things the old lady could eat. For example, “I know an old lady who swallowed a fish. It went swish, swish, swish when she swallowed the fish.” Or, “I know an old lady who swallowed a bear. She lost all her hair when she swallowed the bear.” Put their silly rhymes together to make a class book.