- construction paper (red and green)
- color
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.
Sing Together: “Red Hat, Green Hat”
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to teach them a song about a farmer’s hat. Say, We will sing the song in two groups. Group 1 will be the red hat group and Group 2 will be the green hat group.
- Divide the class into two groups. Give Group 1 a sheet of red construction paper and Group 2 a sheet of green construction paper. Help children make a hat out of the paper by bending it so one corner overlaps teh other to make a cone-shaped hat. Help children fit the hat to their head and staple the two ends together. (Be sure the flat end of the staple is inside the hat.)
- Tell children you want them to put their hat on when they sing their part.
- Model by singing both verses of the song ”Red Hat, Green Hat.” Have children wear their red/green hats as you sing.
- Have one group sing the first verse (“Farmer wore a red hat”). Signal the other group to sing the second verse (“Farmer wore a green hat”).
- Then have both groups sing their verses at the same time.
Red Hat, Green Hat
(sung to the tune of “Mary Wore Her Red Dress”)
(Group #1 sings)
Farmer wore a red hat,
Red hat,
Red hat.
Farmer wore a red hat
All day long.
(Group #2 sings)
Farmer wore a green hat,
Green hat,
Green hat.
Farmer wore a green hat
All day long.