Additional Classroom Connections This storytime can be expanded to continue children’s exploration of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition.
Social & Emotional Partner Patterns Help children invent and then repeat AB patterns with two actions. First, gather photos of different animals. Invite pairs of children to choose one of the animals. Ask each child in the pair to show one action that animal might make. Then challenge each pair of children to work together to show their animal pattern, showing one action and then the other. For example, a “dog” partner pair might pant, scratch, pant, scratch, pant, scratch. To continue the fun, encourage children to choose a new animal and make a new pattern with two new actions. This time, change which partner makes the first action. Classroom Interactions Productivity Making the most of time at school is critical to children’s progress. To help ensure that your classroom is a productive environment: • Teach clear routines that keep children focused. • Provide explicit instructions so children know what they are supposed to be doing. • Offer choices for “fast finishers” who have completed a task. • Take advantage of transition and snack times to reinforce learning with games, discussions, singing, or chanting. • Before class begins, ensure that materials are ready and accessible.
Music & Movement Circle Game Invite children to sing and play this classic circle song. To play, the child who is the bluebird weaves in and out of the circle flapping“wings,”and then stops and taps the next bluebird. Bluebird, Bluebird Bluebird, bluebird through my window, Bluebird, bluebird through my window, Bluebird, bluebird come through my window, Oh, Johnny, I am tired. Take a little girl/boy, and tap her/him on the shoulders, Take a little girl/boy, and tap her/him on the shoulders, Take a little girl/boy, and tap her/him on the shoulders, Oh, Johnny, I am tired! Bluebird, bluebird through my window, Bluebird, bluebird through my window, Bluebird, bluebird come through my window, Oh, Johnny, I am tired.
Language & Literacy
Phonological Awareness: Rhymes Nursery rhymes promote children’s phonological development by helping children identify individual sounds in the rhythms and rhymes. Read aloud common nursery rhymes and encourage children to chant along from memory. After reading a few nursery rhymes like “Hickory Dickory Dock” or “Humpty Dumpty,” explain to children that having fun with words helps build their language skills. Saying rhymes like these is a fun way to use language! What rhyming words do you hear?
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