Teddy Bear Song

 

Today's Snack: Teddy Grahams make great little cookie snacks, especially when dipped in milk.

 

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Supplies:

Props: teddy bear, shoe, hairbrush, staircase

 

 

The better a young child is at listening to words and acting them out, the better writer that child will someday become. Anything that a child can do that is multisensory - using more than one sense at a time - is a good brain-builder for the future.

 

Singing is the best of all communication practice tasks. That's because when a child memorizes and sings lines to a song, the child has to think about the words, say them correctly in the right rhythm, move his or her pitch up and down the scale to hit the right musical notes, and perform the actions - all at the same time.

 

Wow! There's a lot going on with one simple little song. But that's what makes singing such a powerful literacy builder.

 

Here's a familiar song that your child can memorize, and sing and perform with actions, that combines thinking, listening, pronunciation, speaking, singing and meaningful movement. Your child can either have the teddy bear act out the song, or just hold one while performing. Either way, it'll bring down the house:

 

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, show your shoe.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, that will do.

 

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, brush your hair.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, climb the stair.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn off the light.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say goodnight.

 

            If you don't know the tune, the notes are:

 

            G, G, E, G, G, E, G, A, G

            F, F, D, F, F, D, F, G, F

            G, G, E, G, G, E, G, A, G

            F, F, D, F, F, D, G, E, C.