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This sequence of
story and exercises is done with the movement and gesture
appropriate to the therapeutic content.
Kindergarten to First Grade (for a group of
2-5 children)
A Day In The
Country
One day Klara and
Karl awoke from the sun as it peered into their window and danced
about as if to say:
‘Awake awake the
stars have set
The sun is out
today, awake.’
Down in the
kitchen was Betty Botta mixing the morning bread. As the children
stepped down the stairs, this is what they said:
‘Betty Botta
bought some butter
But she said, this
butter’s bitter
If I put it in my
batter
It will make my
batter bitter
So she went and
bought some butter
Better than the
other butter
And it made her
bitter batter better.’
- Anon
So Betty had
finished her batter and put it in the oven to bake. Then breakfast
was over. As Klara hurried to replace the bread in the box she
said:
‘Little Miss
Munching Mouse
Munches mince meat
in my house
Lamp or light no
longer lit
Biting munching,
bit by bit
Bits of beans of
bread of buns
Comes the cat to
catch the crumbs.’
With that the
children bounded out to see what they could see.
‘The earth is sure
beneath my feet
And see, upright I
stand
The heavens arch
above my head
And friends I have
to take my hands.’
- Anon
The animal friends
that they did see were on the earth in a pond and up in
trees:
‘Oh,’ said
Karl:
‘What else do you
see?’ said Klara
‘The galloping
horses are bigger than bunnies.’
‘Clip, Clop, Clip,
Clop
Horse in
saddle
Flip, flap, flip,
flap
Flip the whip,
Flap the strap
Whap!’
-
Anon
‘Galloping,
galloping over the hill
O, what a frolic
for Klara and Karl
-
Anon
‘Come back, come
back,’ Round up at the corral:
‘Clippity clop
Clippity clop
Colts are
galloping home non-stop.’
-
Anon
If you’re back
clap up!
‘Clap up, clap
down
Clap behind, clap
before
Clap up, clap
down,
As we have often
done before.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
LUNCHTIME:
Let’s help Betty
Botta chop the beets.
Chop, chop,
choppety chop,
Chop up the bottom
and chop up the top.
What there is left
we shall pop in the pot.
Chop chop,
choppety chop. Say grace…
-
Anon
Now we’ve had our
lunch,
With soup to eat
and greens to munch
So let’s go on a
visit to our wee small hut:
(The children
playing or speaking, go inside and the others knock on the
door).
To
visit:
1. Miss
Prune
2. Child
knocking
3. 1-6 little
mimers or actors or speakers
4. the
watchers
(Knock, knock,
knock)
‘Someone came a
knocking
At my wee small
door
Someone came a
knocking
I’m sure, I’m
sure, I’m sure.
I listened I
opened
I looked to left
and right
But no one was a
stirring
In the still day
light.’
Except for:
‘Johnny’ (the kids say their names)
‘May the flea and fly come out to
play?’
The children
playing a flea and a fly come out the door. Either one speaks or
the teacher speaks and they repeat or several speak and the
others mime (circle game):
1. ‘A flea and a
fly in a flue
Were together, so
what could they do
Said the flea ‘let
us fly’
Said the fly ‘let
us flee’
So they flew
through a flaw in the flue.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
They say good-bye
and go back in
Another knock is
followed by the same.
May the Caterpillars come out to
Play?
2. ‘Caterpillar
green and furry
Creeps along from
leaf to leaf
Caterpillar,
though your time be brief
You can tell a
wondrous story
Short your life,
for you must die
To live again a
butterfly.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
The same procedure
– another one:
3. ‘Caterpillar
creeping
Up a
stalk
Feet are blindly
feeling
Where they’ll
walk
Soon you’ll be a
butterfly
And spread your
wings and off you’ll fly.’
Two butterflies
come out of roses:
4. ‘Butterflies
are fluttering among the flowers
Flit on many
coloured wings through sunlit hours
Roses glowing on
either hand
We bloom and we
blossom here we stand.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
‘Goodbye
butterflies’ (flowers stay out)
‘It’s the buzzing
bees’
5. ‘It makes me
feel a little dizzy
To watch the bees
so small and buzzy
They gather pollen
at all hours
To make the honey
from the flowers’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
‘The French
Dragonfly’ (circle game)
6. Libellule
libellule, coleur bleuté
Tu t’en va, tu
t’en va
Dans les
près.
Libellule
libellule conleur mouille
Tut’en va – dan
les près
-
French
Lullaby
7. ‘It’s wiggly
worm come up to top
To squirm and
wriggle he just won’t stop
He’ll stretch and
stretch and crawl and crawl
See first he’s big
and then he’s small –
It’s wriggly worm
come out to call.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
8. ‘Underneath the
water weeds
Small and black I
wriggle
And life is most
surprising
Wriggle waggle
tadpole
There’s now and
then a most
Exciting change in
me
I wonder wriggle
waggle
What I shall turn
out to be.’
A Frog!
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
‘What about the
kittens’
9. ‘Come to your
mother you naughty little kittens
Come to your
mother the mother cat cried
For the kittens
were fighting and biting each other
But mother cat
soon had them safely inside.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
10. ‘Now the
kittens are sleeping warm and still
Look at them
sleeping on my pillow.
When they awake
they’ll be racing
And teasing and
chasing
And lapping their
milk ‘til
They’ve both had
their fill-o.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
11. ‘Slowly,
slowly, like a snail
I move towards the
corner
Creeping, creeping
on my way
At last I reach
the corner.’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
12. ‘Let us make a
little visit to the curly house of snail
Round we go until
we find him hidden in his coat of mail
Then we turn and
go back homeward still a winding all
the way
‘Til we come out
from his tunnel to the sunny light of day’
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
Fiddle-de-dee! May
the grasshoppers come out to play (High June, by C. A.
Morin)
13. Fiddle de
dee!
Grasshoppers
three
Rollicking over
the meadow;
Scarcely the
grass,
Bends as they
pass,
So fairy-light is
their tread, O!
Said grasshopper
one,
‘The summer’s
begun
This sunshine is
driving me crazy!’
Said grasshopper
two,
‘I feel just like
you’
And leapt on the
top of a daisy.
‘Please wait for
me!’
Cried grasshopper
three,
‘My legs are ready
for hopping!’
So grasshoppers
three,
Fiddle de
dee
Raced all the day
without stopping.
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
May the crocodile
and the fishes come out to play (L. Carrol)
14. How does the
little crocodile
Improve his
shining tail?
And pour the
waters of the Nile
On every golden
scale
How cheerfully he
seems to grin
How neatly spreads
his claws
And welcomes
little fishes in
With deeply
smiling jaws.
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
Now let’s see some
fishes and a bird
Nest in a tree and
down by the stream
15. ‘Freckled
fishes flitting flirting
Floating fast or
flowing free
Flicking filmy
fins like feathers
Feeding on the
flowing sea.’
-
Anon
16. Snug within
their tiny nests
Baby birds with
open beaks
Beg for food the
livelong day
Busy parents have
no rest
Food they find for
their brood
To baby birds the
world is good
- From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
17. Once a little
bird went hop hop hop
And I said, little
bird will you stop stop stop
I ran to the
window to say how do you do
But she shook her
little tail and away she flew
-
From
'Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme - Poems collected by
Heather Thomas'
Thus the day is
ended and I close my wee small door.
Tomorrow you
may knock again for friends to see once more.
©
Copyright 2005 Katherine Rudolph, Exploring The Word In Colour and
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