I’m sure most of
you are familiar with this song.
The children love it, and they don’t realize they are learning as they
dance and sing.
Nicole Bueno sent
me this link for a YouTube video she made to go with it:
*I appreciate the
fact that she asked permission before putting the music up there. Many people don’t realize that my music
is copyrighted and that I have to get permission from Progressive Media and
Music. The arrangements all belong
to Mark Dye.
A fun activity to
go along with this song is to have the children stand in a circle. When the letter that their name starts
with comes up in the song, they get to jump in the middle and break dance.
You could also
make paper crowns and let each child decorate one with a different letter. The children could wear these and then
dance in the middle of the circle when their letter is sung.
How about a rapper
necklace? Give each child a 6” cut
out of a letter. Let them decorate
it with markers, stickers, glitter, etc.
Punch a hole, tie on a piece of string, and you’re ready to dance.
Use sign language
or the signs from Animated Literacy, Visual Phonics, Jolly Phonics, Zoo
Phonics… as you sing.
Make a book for
children to follow along as they listen to the song.
However, my
favorite idea for this song came from some teachers who performed it for an end
of the year program. They asked
the children to bring in old white T-shirts, which they decorated with
spots. They made puppy dog
headbands (ovals stapled to a strip of paper) and then they painted each
child’s nose black. They pinned a
large letter on each child so they could run through a paper doghouse (square
and rectangle with an arch cut in it pinned to the stage curtains) as the song was fun.
