Children recite a rhyme together and perform actions.
Children recite a rhyme together and perform actions.
What you'll need
Step by step
Step 1
Recite the rhyme together. Click Download Resource to see the rhyme.
Step 2
Encourage children to perform the actions.
Step 3
Repeat the rhyme, replacing blue with other colors the children are wearing.
Learning outcomes
Language/Literacy
Receptive Language (Listening)
Follows two and three-step directions of increasing complexity; listens and responds to simple rhymes and rhythms; gains meaning listening to stories, informational texts, directions, and conversations with adult support; understands verbal and nonverbal cues.
Follows multi-step directions of increasing complexity; listens and responds to more complex rhymes and rhythms; gains meaning listening to stories, informational texts, directions, and conversations.
Language/Literacy
Expressive Language (Speaking)
Converses with a rapidly expanding vocabulary; understands words and meanings from growing number of topics and learning domains; demonstrates understanding of some opposite concepts.
Demonstrates understanding and use of rapidly expanding vocabulary, including language of specific learning domains and more abstract concepts; identifies word pairs that describe opposite concepts.
Language/Literacy
Foundational Reading
Begins to exhibit phonological awareness (recognizes and produces rhyming words with support, pronounces and segments syllables with support using actions [clapping], repeats alliteration [series of words beginning with same letter sound in a text] during word play and recognizes words with common beginning sound).
Exhibits age-appropriate phonological awareness (combines syllables to make a word, combines words to make compound words, associate sounds with letters and words, recognizes alliteration and words that rhyme).
Math
Patterns, Sorting/Classifying, Reasoning
Shows increasing ability to match/sort/classify by color, size, shape; classifies by one attribute and makes comparisons across learning domains.
Matches/sorts/classifies by color, size, shape, texture; describes sorting rules; classifies by more than one attribute into two or more groups across learning domains.
Physical Development and Health
Gross Motor Development
Coordinates body movements in place with increasing skill (begins to kick ball with purpose, throws overhand with some accuracy, dribbles balls with increased coordination, throws and attempts to catch balls, begins using bat/racket to make contact with objects)
Coordinates body movements in place to accomplish a goal (kicks ball accurately in game, throws overhand, dribbles, and catches balls with increasing accuracy, swings bat/racket and makes contact with stationary objects, bounces and passes ball)