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The Letters of the Alphabet Song Lyrics Activities Ready, Set, Go Song Lyrics Activities The First Duck Song Lyrics Activities

Acknowledgement The Curriculum Services Canada Foundation provided financial support to the writer of this resource through its Grants and Awards Program for Teachers.

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The letters of the alphabet.

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Curriculum Links
Language demonstrate awareness of individual sounds and sound patterns in language use gestures, tone of voice, and other non-verbal means to communicate more effectively identify most of the letters of the alphabet and demonstrate understanding that letters represent sounds perform in a group recall and repeat familiar songs demonstrate understanding of rhythmic patterns

The Arts

Activities
Before Teaching the Song
Materials classroom wall alphabet

Using the classroom wall alphabet, review the letters by pointing to each upper case letter and then to each lower case letter. Ask individual children to find a specific letter and say it aloud.

After Teaching the Song

Materials large stencil cut outs of each letter of the alphabet markers, crayons, paint, brushes film and camera ladder construction paper

Give each child a large stencil cut out of one letter of the alphabet. Have them colour or paint in their letter with patterns, pictures, or designs. Children can cut out pictures from magazines to paste on their letter. As the class says each letter in alphabetical sequence, the children arrange themselves in the proper order. Sing the song together with each child raising a letter, in turn. Have the children sing the song, using la, la, la, la until they can name the letters in sequence. Have the children make the letters of the alphabet, using their bodies (See Appendix). Each alphabet letter will need at least two students. Take a picture of each letter as the children form them. Frame each picture with construction paper and post in the classroom. The children can use their new alphabet display to sing the song and point to the alphabet letters. Use a ladder to take an aerial shot of the letters.

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Appendix

The Letters of the Alphabet

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Observations Checklist
Name: ________________________

Can recall and repeat the song. Responds positively to the song. Can say most of the letters of the alphabet. Can identify most of the letters of the alphabet. Recognizes upper and lower case letters. Works co-operatively with peers when forming the letter shapes.

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Ready, Set, Go How do you feel? I feel fine Lets take some words and make them rhyme What do you know? I know a lot Ready, set, go Up down all around Up down all around Up down all around Up down all around Near far twinkle star Near far twinkle star Near far twinkle star Near far twinkle star Open close touch my nose Open close touch my nose Open close touch my nose Open close touch my nose Up down all around Near far twinkle star Open close touch my nose And that is what I know

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Curriculum Links
Language demonstrate awareness of individual sound and sound patterns in language use gestures, tone of voice and other non - verbal means to communicate more effectively use language to connect new experiences with what they already know ask questions, express feelings use language accurately to describe basic spatial relationships name body parts demonstrate balance, ease, and flexibility in movement demonstrate spatial awareness perform in a group identify feeling evoked by art forms move in response to the tempo and mood of the music recall and repeat familiar songs, dance steps and rhymes demonstrate understanding of rhythmic patterns

Mathematics Personal and Social Development The Arts

Activities
Materials chart paper markers

Before Teaching the Song

Review what rhyming words are. Say a word and ask the children to give a rhyming word for it. On chart paper, print the words far and close. With the class, list words that rhyme with these words. Circle the words that are used as rhyming words in the song. To prepare the children for acting out the song, teach them these specific actions: up - reach up down - bring arms down all around - circle arms in front near - jump toward the teacher far - jump away from the teacher twinkle star - with fingers moving, reach up open - heels of hands together, palms open close - close hands together touch my nose - students touch their nose

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After Teaching the Song

Materials paper or mural paper paint, crayons chart paper and markers magazines and poster As the children sing the song, have them make their own actions for up, down, all around, near, far, twinkle star, open, close, touch my nose. Ask the children to identify things in the classroom and the school that are near and far. Discuss how things appear to look small when they are far away compared to how they appear when they are close. Show pictures from magazines and posters and have the children identify what is near and what is far in the each picture. Have the children paint a class mural or individual pictures with a black or dark blue background and stars in the sky. They can show people near and far in their pictures. Have the children depict the near, far, twinkle star scene using a shoe box painted black or dark blue for the sky and make play dough people to place inside.

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Observations Checklist
Name: ________________________

Can recall and repeat the song. Can recall and repeat the actions to the song.

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Can use the proper timing when doing the actions to the song. ____ Can answer the questions in the song appropriately (e.g., How do you feel?). Recognizes the rhyming words in the song. Responds positively to the song. ____ ____ ____

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The First Duck Oh the first duck said to the second little duck Quack, quack, quack, its morning And the third duck said to the fourth little duck Quack, quack, quack youre snoring And they played all day in a duck kind of way Splash, splash, splash in the pond And when night time came they all swam away To their duck home safe and warm Oh the first chick said to the second little chick Cluck, cluck, cluck, its morning And the third chick said to the fourth little chick Cluck, cluck, cluck, youre snoring And they played all day in a chick kind of way Scratch, scratch, scratch on the ground And when night time came they all ran away To their chick home safe and warm Oh the first jay said to the second little jay Tweet, tweet, tweet, its morning And the third jay said to the fourth little jay Tweet, tweet, tweet, youre snoring And they played all day in a jay kind of way Fly, fly, fly all around And when night time came they all flew away To their jay home safe and warm

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Curriculum Links
Language use gestures, tone of voice, and other non-verbal means to communicate more effectively demonstrate understanding of a story (the song) by making predictions use language patterns and sound patterns use ordinal numbers demonstrate an awareness of the passage of time describe local natural habitats identify patterns and cycles in the natural world demonstrate awareness of patterns in their daily lives (morning, afternoon, evening) express their feelings of wonder and curiosity about the world perform in a group move in response to the tempo and mood of music recall and repeat familiar songs, dance steps and rhymes demonstrate understanding of rhythmic patterns

Mathematics Science and Technology Personal and Social Development The Arts

Activities
Before Teaching the Song
Materials chart paper markers

With the children, make a list of birds. Discuss the sounds, actions, and travel mode for the birds on their list and record their responses on a chart. Example Bird duck Sound quack Action splashes in water Travel Mode swims

Have the children form lines of four. Model counting children standing in a line, using ordinal numbers from first to fourth. Call out an ordinal number and have the children standing in that position raise their hands. Print each numeral from 1 to 4 on a separate card along with its corresponding ordinal number and post in the classroom. On chart paper, print the following headings; Morning, Afternoon, Night. With the children, list activities that they do during these times.

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After Teaching the Song

Materials pencils, crayons markers, chart paper stapler BLM 1 and BLM 2

Work with the children to form basic hand actions they can make while singing the song, e.g., quacking, splashing, sleeping (duck home safe and warm). Choose one thing each bird does (sound, action, or travel) for children to focus on. Using the template on BLM 1, have the children depict what each bird in the song does during different times of the day. Staple their pages together into a booklet. Identify only one time of the day for children to depict and put their work together in a class booklet. Reproduce BLM 2 on chart paper to use as a frame in composing a new song about other animal groups, e.g., farm animals, zoo animals. Beforehand, complete a chart similar to the bird chart, filling in the name, sound, action, and travel mode for each animal.

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BLM 1

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morning

afternoon

night

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BLM 2

[Title]

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Oh the first __________ said to the second little __________ __________, __________, __________ its morning And the third __________ said to the fourth little __________ __________, __________, __________ youre snoring And they played all day in a __________ kind of way __________, __________, __________ in the __________ And when night time came they all __________ away To their __________ home safe and warm

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