KINDERGARTEN LANGUAGE AND MOVEMENT LESSON

By Miss Terry and Miss Sharon

This month’s speech and language lessons will be based on the classic book The Little Engine that Could retold by Watty Piper. The song will be Ride on a Train (see below). We will be talking about the parts of a train, different types of vehicles and categorizing objects. You can help carryover the language lessons learned in these activities by having your child tell you about the story. Also, you can play categorization games by listing vehicles, toys and foods. “Who can name the most____!?” Happy Holidays to all!!

Ride on the Train (Tune: Ten Little Indians”)

Ride on a train with a girl/boy named (classmate’s name)

In our class today.

(Repeat verses until all the children are named.)

Vocabulary/concepts:

Nouns Adjectives Actions Positions

Engine	Long	Rumbled	In
Train	Little	Carry	On
Boys	Big	Filled	Over
Girls	Happy	Want	Under
Toys	Sad	Eat	Around
Dolls	Jolly	Puffed
Clown	Tired	Stopped
Airplanes	Good	Tried
Puzzles	Funniest	Jumped
Books	Strong	Help
Animals	Old	Pulled
Bears	Faster	Sleeping
Elephants	Blue	Read
Giraffes	Red	Waved
Oranges	Yellow	Looked
Apples	Brown

Grammatical Forms

Past and present tense verb forms	Yes/no questions
Pronouns	Articles (a, an, the)
Prepositions	Present progressive verb
Comparatives	Plural nouns
Irregular past tense	Negation

Other Language and Motor Skills

Auditory and visual attention	Turn taking
Auditory and visual sequential memory	Simple and complex sentences
Story retelling	categorization
Labeling	Following simple motor commands
comparisons	Articles (a, an, the)
Negation	Phonemic awareness
Word associations	Question asking
Problem solving	Various verb tenses
Self-awareness	rhyming