KINDERGARTEN LANGUAGE WITH MOVEMENT LESSON

This month’s speech and language lessons will be based on the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner with pictures by Mark Buehner. The song will be Snowman (see below). We will be acting out the book, making a snowman picture and snowflakes and making “footprint” in the snow. Please take time to join your child in one of the following activities:

Ask your child to tell you about the story
If and when the weather permits, play in the snow with your child.
Talk about your child’s favorite activities in the snow. Tell your child about your own adventures in the snow.

SNOWMAN

A Derivative Work, based on "Soul Man"

by David Porter and Isaac Hayes;

AND ALMO MUSIC CORPORATION (ASCAP)

New Lyrics by Rachel Arntson and Chez Raginiak

Recording 2004 Rachel Arntson and Chez Raginiak

You know, if you live in a place where they don't have any snow at all,

You've probably never made a snowman.

Well, look at me. That's what I am.

And I'll tell you what you need to make a snowman.

Just repeat after me. Here we go!

Verse

Carrot nose, (carrot nose) warm hat, (warm hat)

Black eyes, (black eyes) very fat. (very fat)

Chorus

I'm a snowman. (snowman)

I'm a snowman.

I'm a snowman. (snowman)

I'm a snowman.

Verse

A big broom, (big broom) and a long scarf, (long scarf)

I got stick arms, (stick arms) but I've got a smiley mouth. (smiley mouth)

Chorus

I'm a snowman. (snowman)

I'm a snowman.

I'm a snowman. (snowman)

I'm a snowman.

Hey, now that you know what a snowman looks like, and what they're made out of.

You can go out and make one. Let's do it!

Chorus

Now go outside and make one!

Vocabulary/concepts:

Nouns Adverbs/Adjectives Actions Positions

snowman	wintry	made	down
hat	next	saw	off
arms	same	slipped	into
night	fright	drooped	over
day	really	throw	underneath
park	all	wonder
circle	Iced-cold	think
race	each	slide
ice	anxious	gather
snow	after	wait
snowballs	sometimes	sipping
pitcher	moonlit	Line-up
game	biggest	skating
time	finally	giggle
ride	tuckered	bump
hill	sleepy	fall
grin	slowly	act
height	crooked	play
		sledding
		yell
		lost

Grammatical Forms

Past and present tense verb forms	What-questions
Pronouns	Articles (a, an, the)
Prepositions	Present progressive verb
Comparatives, superlatives	Regular and irregular plural nouns
Irregular past tense	Negation

Other Language and Motor Skills

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