Help children draw face pictures on their fingers. In case this proves difficult prepare tiny little sticker pictures of Daddy, Mummy, brother, sister, baby faces to stick on their fingers Then Sing:
Building on the last course, using the materials above to improvise on the following dialogue; “Do you want the green tent? No! No? Or do you want the yellow tent? Yes! Oh you want the yellow tent? Yes. Very good. OK, so you’re getting the yellow tent. Again, with one finger. Very good, Dani. Good job. OK, now turn it over.” (so it can be pasted). “There you go. Now take the moon. Green or yellow? Here, on the sky. Green or yellow? Do you want me to help you? You can do it. I know that you can do it. Come on. Turn it over. Green? Green! Yes. Green. Oh, you want a green tent. Very good.”
“Good job, Dani. Very good. Now, do you want the yellow tent? Or would you like the green tent? The green tent. Very good. Now– hold on, let’s do the tent first. What do you need now?” (taking the sprinkler of glitter) “We need the rain drops. Yes. Right here. Hold it right there. There you go. There you go. Like this? Yes? Now turn it over. I’m just going to put this over here. Put this over here. . Put some rain. Turn it over. This one, turn it over and paste it. This one. Like this. And put it– stick it– yes, very good. Very good. Now what do we need Dani? We need drops of rain.”
“(SINGING) Rain, rain, go away. Sprinkle. That’s right. OK, but we need more drops, more drops of rain. (SINGING) Rain, rain, go away. Dani, with one finger, remember? Very good. Yes. (SINGING) One little finger, one little finger, one little finger… drop. And the glue! Yes! And we can make drops. Very good, Dani. Yes, keep going. More drops. More drops. It’s raining a lot! A lot! (SINGING) It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring.” (Perhaps make snoring sound). “Where are you going? Ah, you want one of these. Of course you do. Very good. There you go. Put it right here. Put a sprinkle there. Sprinkle it right here, on the glue. Very good. There you go. Right here. Right here. Right here. Sprinkle, sprinkle.”
“Over here. Sprinkle, sprinkle. And your moon and your drops of rain. Very good. Oh, do we have a different white…? One? One? One? One? For their names. Thanks. Look at this. This is going to look beautiful. Good job, everyone. Look, everyone. Look at Dani’s. Look how beautiful it is. Michael, look at Dani’s. It’s so beautiful. Good job, Dani. Alex, do you like Dani’s? It’s very nice. I really like it. Your parents are going to love it. Do you like it? Yes. Yes, yes you do! Very good! Good.”
Eggs in the pan, e, e, e,
Eggs in the pan, e, e, e,
Cracking eggs like this: e!
My friend and I went to the beach
With my floating fish.
I got a hole.
The air came out ffffffff!