Kindergarten Language and Movement Lesson

By Miss Terry and Miss Sharon

 

This month’s book will be THE NAPPING HOUSE by Audrey Wood and the hand play will be Thankful (see below).  We will be learning the signs for the main nouns in this story and using them in the song version of the book.  Do the hand play with your child.    

 

THANKFUL

 

If you’re thankful and you know it, clap your hands.(clap hands)

If you’re thankful and you know it, clap your hands. (clap hands)

If you’re thankful and you know it, then your life will surely show it.

If you’re thankful and you know it, clap your hands. (clap hands.)

Additional verses, replace underline part with:

Wave hello (wave)

Say thank you (say and sign thank you)

Shake a hand (shake someone’s hand)

 

Vocabulary/concepts:

Nouns                          Adjectives                   Positions        

Bed	Cozy	In
Granny	Snoring	On
Child	Dreaming	Over
Dog	Dozing	Under
Cat	Snoozing	around
Mouse	Slumbering
Flea	wakeful
House	Napping

 

Actions

	Sleeping	Bites
Walking		Breaks
Fell		Scares

Other: everyone, no one, there, where, that, who

 

Grammatical Forms

 

Past and present tense verb forms	Yes/no questions
Pronouns	Articles (a, an, the)
Prepositions	Present progressive verb

 

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

 

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