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).
Language/L.PK.MA.1.b: Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
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: “Five Little Piggies”
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ELA Focus Skills: Counting, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition)
Ask children to recall the story of the ten pigs that got clean/dirty, Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs. Tell children you are going to teach them a poem about some other little pigs. Say, These pigs had lots of fun jumping on a bed—until they fell off and bumped their heads!
- Chant the poem and do the hand motions.
- Invite children to repeat each line and do the hand motions after you.
- Have five children at a time sit on the classroom rug and act out the rhyme as the whole class recites.
Five Little Piggies
Five little piggies jumping on the bed (hold up five fingers)
One fell off and bumped her head (touch head)
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, (hold phone to ear)
“No more piggies jumping on the bed!” (shake index finger “no”)
(Repeat, subtracting a pig each time, then sing the final verse below.)
No little piggies jumping on the bed (shake head “no”)
None fell off and bumped his head
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, (hold phone to ear)
“Put those piggies back in the bed!”