- build
- builder
- tool
- worker
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.8.a Respond with movement or clapping to a regular beat in poetry or song.
Mathematics/Counting and Cardinality/PK.CC.MA.3 Understand the relationships between numerals and quantities up to ten.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1 Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12 Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Mathematics/Number Sense 1 Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.
Sing Together: “Johnny Works with One Hammer”
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STEM Key Concepts: Understand that tools and machines help people do things faster and/or more easily; Identify tools used for a specific purpose
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Comprehension (Recall), Vocabulary
Review with children some of the tools builders use to build a house. (hammer, saw, screwdriver, ladder, etc.) Ask children, Why do you think a builder needs a hammer to build a house? As children respond, ask them to act out hammering a nail. Then say, Let’s sing a song about a worker who uses hammers on the job.
Have children sit on chairs in a circle. Sing the first verse, tapping one fist lightly on your leg as if hammering. Say, Now, Johnny gets more hammers. Explain the different verses using the gestures.
- When Johnny works with two hammers, children tap both fists on their legs.
- When Johnny works with three hammers, children tap both fists on their legs and tap one foot on the floor.
- When Johnny works with four hammers, children tap both fists on their legs and tap both feet on the floor.
- When Johnny works with five hammers, children tap both fists on their legs, tap both feet on the floor, and nod their heads down and up.
- At the end of the song, children rest their heads on their hands and pretend to go to sleep.
Invite children to sing and move to the music.
Johnny Works With One Hammer
Johnny works with one hammer, (tap one fist lightly on leg)
One hammer, one hammer.
Johnny works with one hammer,
Then he works with two.
Johnny works with two hammers, (tap two fists on legs)
Two hammers, two hammers.
Johnny works with two hammers,
Then he works with three.
Johnny works with three hammers, (tap two fists on legs, one foot on floor)
Three hammers, three hammers.
Johnny works with three hammers,
Then he works with four.
Johnny works with four hammers, (tap two fists on legs, two feet on floor)
Four hammers, four hammers.
Johnny works with four hammers,
Then he works with five.
Johnny works with five hammers, (tap two fists on legs, one foot on floor, nod head)
Five hammers, five hammers.
Johnny works with five hammers,
And then he goes to sleep! (lay hands like sleeping)