Today, our letter for the day was "G" and our number was the number "4".
4 pairs of glasses, 4 green grapes, 4 goldfish crackers, 4 goats, 4 green gum balls...you get the picture. We colored a picture of a girl with green eyes, just like Miss Melanie, played games and drank gatorade.
We counted squares on the floor, tiles in the ceiling, shoes on our feet, bows in our hair and rings on our fingers.
My sister introduced me to an episode of Sesame Street featuring a singer who turned her very popular song into a song about the number 4. Singing time went like this:
"One, two, three, four, monsters walking 'cross the floor"
"Miss Melanie, Miss Melanie"
"Yes, Faines?"
"We no like monsters!"
"Well, it is just a song..."
"No monsters!"
So, we made a new version...
"One, two, three, four, blocks are stacked up on the floor. I like stacking blocks and want to stack some more!"
"One, two, three, four, friends are knocking on the door. I like friends who are knocking on the door."
A little safer than singing about monsters when you are four!
3 comments:
Dr./Mrs. Smithey always said in her Peabody Education classes that the most important thing in teaching was the F-word. What? That's right: flexibility! Great job in adverting scary monster breakdown with a new (and, arguably, better) song.
It also occured to me that if you did not grow up watching Sesame Street, you might not know that monsters are nice!!!! And...might have cookies!!!!
Sorry, "occurred"
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