Song: It’s a Ring-A-Ding-A-Sing-Thing Time
It’s a Ring-A-Ding-A-Sing-Thing Time
It’s a Ring-A-Ding-A-Sing-Thing Time
We’re going to sing a song
And it won’t take long
It’s a Ring-A-Ding-A-Sing Thing Time
Nursery Rhyme: Row Your Boat x4 (each time faster)
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
Nursery Rhyme/Fingerplay: The Itsy Bitsy Spider x2
Movement/Song: Zoom Zoom Zoom x2
Zoom zoom zoom
We’re going to the moon
Zoom zoom zoom
We’re going to the moon
In 5…4…3…2…1…
Blast off!
Story: How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? (by Jane Yolen)
Instrumental Free Play
Song: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Played with instruments, with a cow and a pig on the farm
Movement Activity: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Scarves Activity
First, we used the scarves to make rainbow shapes (seven times – one for each color), horse tails and practiced oles! Then, we sang The Wheels on the Bus and then Two Little Bluebirds. Finally, after rolling the scarves into a ball, we threw them up together and tried to catch them!
Movement Activity: I’m a Little Teapot
Free Play
The bells and parachutes came out as the kids played
Movement Activity: Hokey Pokey
Movement Activity: Ring Around the Rosy
Closing Song
We wave good-bye like this
We wave good-bye like this
Let’s clap for all our friends
We wave good-bye like this