Okay, I really really need suggestions for songs to sing and games to play with the younger kids. Here's what we have been doing so far:
- Hokey pokey (they loooooooove this one, plus it helps teach them right vs. left)
- Ring around the rosey
- B-I-N-G-O
- We do stretches and jumping jacks and hopping on one foot, acting goofy, etc.
- Sit quietly while David drinks his coffee
- Simon says (they don't really get it, though)
- Freeze dance: playing music on the cd player and they dance, then stop the music and they have to freeze, then name an animal and they have to act like that animal
- Run around and hit each other
I need as many suggestions as you can give. Songs especially. They really like to sing.
8 comments:
how about:
head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
eyes and ears and mouth and nose
head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
do you know that one?
or little cabin in the woods? as made famous by Roy Damonte. Let me know if you need more info on these.
Google search "New Games" There are a lot of really great ones I used when i was a camp counselor. Hard to explain via text though I feel.
Okay, Cuckoo (for those of you who don't know me, I only call people Cuckoo who I love...I don't know why)... Your sister, Kindergarten teacher extraordinaire to the rescue. Here we go:
Eensy weensy spider
I love you a bushel & a peck (from Guys & Dolls)--make up hand motions.
Skidamarinka dinka dinka Skidamarinka doo I love you...(I love you in the morning and in the afternoon, I love you in the evening underneath the moon. Skidamarinka dinka dinka Skidamarinka doo, I love you too whoo whoop di doo!)--Oh, how I love my job...
The Farmer in the Dell
Hickory Dickory Dock
If you’re happy and you know it… (Can change to if you're a boy and you know it wiggle your nose...wiggle your nose...blah blah blah...or "if you're a girl and you know it suck your thumb" (makin' this up on the spot) or "If you love Uncle David blow a kiss"..., etc. etc. yadayadayada)
John Jacob Jingelheimer Schmidt…
London Bridge is Falling down
Mary Had a little lamb
Oats & Beans & Barley grow...
Oh Susanna
Old MacDonald
Row Row Row Your Boat
Three Blind Mice
Twinkle Twinkle Little star
The Wheels on the Bus
Polly Wolly Doodle
The Muffin Man
The Mulberry Bush
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
On Top of Old Smokey
Kookabora
Are you Sleeping? (Frere Jacque)
The Bear went over the mountain
Bingo
Puff the magic dragon
Clementine
She’ll be comin’ around the mountain when she comes
Have you ever seen a lassie?
Make it up! The kids and I made up a song for my assistant to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell" it went like this:
"We love you Mr. L, We love you Mr. L. You're so kind and you're so tall, we love you Mr. L..." (there were two other verses).
Will do more thinking and get back to you.
xo
David...Davikins...What you are doing now is exhausting and not as much fun as it actually is because you don’t have materials. When you have materials the children can work independently (if you are teaching at what is called the “ZPD” (Zone of Proximinal Development) they should be engaged and learning without much guidance from you). Do you have ANY toys, blocks, etc.?
Other things to do with the kids when you don’t have classroom materials:
1) Create graphs—graph everything (how many boys/girls in the group, how many have long hair/short hair, how many people own a dog, a cat, a monkey, etc.)
2) Make a pretend campfire and sing songs
3) Anything with food
4) Have the kids write the letters of the Alphabet on each others backs and guess what letter it is that they are writing (must write on a big piece of paper or board so that the children who are writing can “cheat”)
Here is an example of a lesson--so you some preps. You have to think of ANYTHING that might possibly go wrong ("What if you drop the paint brush on the ground?", "What if you accidentally put it in your mouth?") Here's an example for modeling. Remember to tell the children what they are to do when they are done (as will finish at different times…”When you are done you can sort beans”, e.g.). Here is an example of preparing the kids for an activity:
Fingerpainting
a. Demonstrate finger painting (write name on paper (or write the first letter of their name--I'd say, "If you aren't writing your entire name yet, just put a big "T" if your name is "Tyler" and I will know who it belongs to"...anyway...
b. Questions to ask:
i. Are we going to eat it?” (They will all shake their heads and say “no!”)
ii. What do we need to paint
1. Smock
2. Paint
3. Paper
4. Crayon (to write name)
5. Place to wash hands
iii. Are we going to smear it on our shirts, pants, etc.” (“NO!)
iv. Are we going to smear it on someone else? ("NO!"
v. Are we going to smear it on the ground? ("NO!")
vi. When we don’t want to paint anymore what are we going to do?
1. Put paper someplace to dry
2. Wash hands
3. Put smock back where got it
vii. Put paint & Crayons away
c. Sharing! At the end, you must build in a time for SHARING—VITAL. That way they gain confidence and are proud of their work, they see others work and are challenged, inspired, etc.
"Are we going to have fun?" (YES!)
email to follow with loads of songs, games.
kup
you should play i spy or something. or i really like the one where you run around and hit eachother. what version of cowboys and indians do they play?? americans and indians?? haha
bye david
love, lee
davy poo, I am so siked for ya man, I just sat down and pumped through the whole blog, Good work friend. Sounds like you are having fun through experiencing all the greatness that comes from sadness and excitement and newness, and kids of course.
proud of ya, keep up the good work,
g
David
Would this website help? http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ (Check out the "choose your subject" box on the lower right hand side).
Enjoying the blog -
Liz LG
when i was a kid we played "throw rocks."
man. these stories make me want to send 1 billion reams of paper to india. just to make paper airplanes for paper airplanes contests.
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