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MA Standards:
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).
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.
Recite Together: Who, Me?
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm and Repetition), Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to teach them a chant about a little mouse who sinks a boat. Recite “Who Me?” with enthusiasm. Then invite children to join in as you recite the chant again. Have children nod their heads and shout out at the end, “Yes, you could!”
Who, Me?
I’m just a tiny little mouse
Much smaller than you think,
Some say I sank the boat!
But could I make it sink?
<Yes, you could!>