- “Hungry for Bee-bim Bop!” chart
- word cards bop and and
- bop
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: “Hungry for Bee-bim Bop!”
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Word Recognition, Small Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Print out the Between the Lions “Hungry for Bee-bim Bop!” chart or copy the words onto chart paper to create a poem chart.
Display the poem chart. Point to the words as you read aloud the title. Tell children that these are words from the book Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Parks.
- Recite “Hungry for Bee-bim Bop!” without the motions. Move your finger under the words, exaggerating slightly the return sweep of your hand to the beginning of the next line. Repeat, inviting children to recite the words with you.
- Hold up the bop word card. Say the word with children. Remind them that bop means rice in the Korean language. Ask a volunteer to find the word bop on the chart.
- Hold up the and word card. Point to the letter “a” and ask, What is the first letter in the word and? Who can find the word and on our poem chart? Have children find other words with the letter “a” in the poem.
- Recite the poem again, adding the hand motions. Invite children to join you.
Hungry for Bee-bim Bop!
(Excerpted from Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park. Text copyright © 2005 by Linda Sue Park. Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Ho Baek Lee)
Home and in the kitchen
Eggs to stir and fry (rotate hands in stirring motion)
Mama, catch the spatula
flip the eggs high! (make flipping motion with wrist)
Hurry, Mama, hurry
Gotta flip flip flop! (make flipping motion with wrist)
Hungry hungry hungry (rub tummy)
for some BEE-BIM BOP! (shout BEE-BIM BOP!)