November 2015
IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT
(Is Everybody Happy? CD)
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (Clap twice.)
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (Clap twice.)
If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (Clap twice.)
If you’re happy and you know it, hug yourself… (Hug self.)
If you’re happy and you know it, kiss your brain… (Kiss fingers & touch head.)
If you’re happy and you know it, wiggle all over… (Wiggle.)
If you’re happy and you know it, shout, “Hoorah!”.. (Put hand in air & shout.)
If you’re happy and you know it, do them all… (Do all 5 motions.)
Activities:
Make a class book called “Things to Be Happy About.” Each child contributes a page by drawing and writing about things that make them happy.
Introduce the expression puppets. Give names to the different expressions and let the children suggest what makes them feel that way. Remind the children that we all have different feelings and that’s O.K.
Use the expression puppets in the song and invite the children to talk about what they could do if they felt that way. For example, “If you’re sad and you know it rub your eyes – boo hoo.” “If you’re angry and you know it stomp your feet –stomp, stomp.” “If you’re proud and you know it pat your back – pat, pat.”
Discuss things that make you angry. What can you do when you get angry? Role appropriate and inappropriate responses. Click here to download a pattern.
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LASSIE AND LADDIE
Did You Ever See a Lassie?
(Nursery Rhymes and Good Old Times CD)
Did you ever see a lassie a lassie a lassie? (Children hold hands and form
Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that? a circle. A girl is chosen to be
Go this way and that way, the “lassie.” She makes a motion
And this way and that way. the others must mimic. The “lassie”
Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that? the chooses a “laddie” and the game
continues.
Did you ever see a laddie…
Activities:
Explain that a synonym is a word that means the same thing. For example, lassie is another name for a girl. Laddie is another name for a little boy. Brainstorm other synonyms.
Use the download to make puppet patterns for the children. Ask them to decorate one side to look like a “lassie” and the other side to look like a “laddie.” Attach to a craft stick to make a puppet. Click here to download a pattern to use with this song.
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FIVE LITTLE DUCKS
(Traditional Tune)
Five little ducks went out to play (Hold up five fingers.)
Over the hills and far away. (Move hand up and down and then put over eyes.)
When the mother duck called, (Put palms together to make bill.)
“Quack, quack, quack, quack.” (Open and shut palms as if quacking.)
Four little ducks came waddling back. (Hold up four fingers.)
Four…three…two…one…
No little ducks went out to play (Hold up fist.)
Over the hills and far away. (Hand up and down and then over eyes.)
When the daddy duck called, (Use forearms to make a bill.)
“QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!” (Open and shut forearms and use a LOUD voice.)
Five little ducks came wadding back. (Hold up five fingers.)
Activities:
Choose children to be the five little ducks, mother, and father and act out the song.
Make a flannel board visual to use as you sing the song. Staple the sides of a file folder together. Glue a piece of felt to the front of the file folder. Cut five ducks out of yellow felt using the pattern below. Add a bill and legs from orange felt. Glue on a wiggly eye.
Let the children make up number stories using the ducks.
Change the words of this song to “Five Little Letters.” Place five magnetic letters on the board and remove a letter after each verse. For example, “Five little letters went out to play over the hills and far away. When the teacher called, ‘ /m/ /m/ /m/ /m/, ‘ only the letter M came back.” Download a pattern to use with this song by clicking here.
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OLD MacDONALD HAD A FARM
(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.
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