Songs and Rhymes

The Mitten in the Snow

The mitten in the snow
The mitten in the snow
Help us please so we won't freeze
The mitten in the snow

The ______________squeezes in
The ______________squeezes in
Help us please so we won't freeze
The mitten in the snow

(put any animal in the space)

Snowing

Its' snowing
an snowing
so what shall we eat?
The snow looks so good
I will make you a treat.
I'm a very fine cook
And I have what it takes
Come into the kitchen,
I'm baking some flakes!

Rum Sum Sum

A rum sum sum
A rum sum sum
Goolie goolie goolie goolie goolie
Rum sum sum sum

Arafi Arafi
Goolie goolie goolie goolie goolie
Rum sum sum

Dickery Dean

What's the matter with Dickery Dean
He jumped right into the washing machine!
Nothing's the matter with Dickory Dean
He dove in dirty and he jumped out clean!

Simple Simon

Simple Simon met a Pie Man
Going to the fare
Said Simple Simon to the Pie Man
Let me taste your ware

Said the Pie Man to Simple Simon
Show me first your penny
Said Simple Simon to the Pie Man
Indeed I have not any!

The Moon Shines Bright

The moon shines bright
The stars give a light
And little Bonny Button-cap
will come tomorrow night

Doctor Foster

Doctor Foster
Went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain;
He stepped in a puddle
Up to his middle
And never went there again!

Put your shoes on Lucy

Put your shoes on Lucy
Don't you know your in the city
Put your shoes on Lucy
It really is a pity
That Lucy can't go barefoot
Wherever she goes
Cause she loves to feel the wiggle of her toes!

The children have been drawing and writing their favourite poems that we are putting into a binder to make their own book of poems!

Chinese New Year

The children learned about the Chinese New Year and have created lanterns,  and are in the process of creating a very long dragon made out of egg cartons. They are also extremely enthusiastic about creating red paper chains - as long as they can!! Today they made a chain that was 53 feet (their feet) long!! We are hanging them up around the room.

Shapes

Ash class has been looking at shapes all around. Outside, inside. We have been creating shapes with lots of different materials such as pipe cleaners, clay and paper. The children made beautiful snowflakes using shapes and have been playing memory games with shapes. We also just learned a new song - The Shape Hokey! Ask your children to sing it to you and I'm sure you'll end up hokeying with them! We have been looking at 2D shapes and will start to look more at 3D shapes.

Gunniwolf

Gunniwolf is our most recent oral story. The children love joining in to the singing parts and also have enjoyed trying to tell the story. Ask your children to tell you the story at home...perhaps before bedtime?

The Mitten!

We have been reading the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. The children are very good at remembering the sequence of the story. If you don't know the story, and want a treat, ask your child to tell you the story! We have been looking at the beautiful illustrations in the book, and talking about different parts of the story. They are excited to talk about the characters, setting and retell the story. Many children have been using our felt board to retell the story as well. We also read another story, similar to The Mitten, called, Room for One More. They were able to list many different things that were the same and different about the stories and we created a Venn Diagram! The children have also created beautiful watercolour paintings to make their own mittens, and sew them together with twisty twirlies (hmmm, what's a twisty twirly, you ask??)