- Opening - "A Tooty Ta" from Dance Like This by Mr. Al
- Color recognition flannelboard - Goosey Goose Colors
A flannelboard color rhyme written by Carol Hopkins.
Directions: Make a set of geese in different colors. Hand these geese out to the children, one per child. Say the rhyme, naming one color each time. The children come up and place their goose on the board when you say the color of their goose.
Goosey, goosey gander
Please come play with me.
Goosey, goosey "red" goose
Join the flock and me.
- Book #1 - Look Out Suzy Goose by Petr Horáček
- Stand-up activity - Goose Pops Out of the Water (action song written by Carol Hopkins to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel")
The goose waddles all over the town
(waddle walk)
The goose walks up to the water
The goose stops to make a sound
(pause to honk like a goose)
Now HOP right into the water!
(jump)
The goose swims all around
(make swimming motions)
The goose swims in the water
The goose stops to make a sound
(pause to honk like a goose)
Now POP right out of the water!
(jump)
- Activity - Little Ducklings (action chant adapted by Carol Hopkins)
Ten little duckling line up in a row
(stand up straight)
Quack, quack, quack
(clap three times)
And away they go.
They walk behind their mother waddling to and fro
(waddle walk)
Quack, quack, quack
(clap three times)
And away they go.
Down to the big pond, happy as can be
(make large circle with both arms)
Quack, quack, quack
(clap three times)
And away they go.
They jump in the water to bob up and down
(bend knees a couple of times to bob)
Quack, quack, quack
(clap three times)
And away they go.
They swim all around, and swim right out of sight
(make swimming motions)
Quack, quack, quack
(clap three times)
And away they went.
(wave good-bye)
- Book #2 - Come Along Daisy! by Jane Simmons
- Book #3 - Goose Needs a Hug by Tad Hills (board book)
- Closing - Dance with scarves to the song "Silly Dance Contest" from Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes by Jim Gill
- Art experience - Use crayons, scissors, and glue sticks with the Duck, Duck, Goose pattern worksheet I found in the August/September 2008 Mailbox magazine
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