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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.
Sing Together: “Looby Loo”
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Rhyme)
Tell children that you are going to sing a song that has lots of movement words. Gather children in a circle and ask them to hold hands. Demonstrate for children by singing the song once and doing the motions. After children have sung the song a few times, ask, What other ways can we move our foot? How does the song make you want to move?
Looby Loo
Here we go looby-loo,
Here we go looby-light,
Here we go looby-loo,
All on a Saturday night.
I put my right foot in,
I put my right foot out,
I give my right foot a shake, shake, shake,
And turn myself about. Oh,
Chorus: Repeat the first four lines.
Additional verses: Instead of singing “looby-loo, looby-light,” change the initial sound each time you sing the chorus. For example, sing “Here we go dooby-doo, Here we go dooby-dight.” For other variations, use letter sounds children have covered in previous units.