PRESCHOOL LANGUAGE AND MOVEMENT

October 2007

By Miss Terry, Miss Sharon and Miss Katy

This month's book is Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley & Anne Miranda. The hand rhyme is The Itsy Bitsy Spider (see below). Ask your child to do the hand rhyme with you. Other language activities will include identifying facial emotions, making spider puppets, identifying different textures and making "monster toast".

THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout.

(Touch pointing finger to thumb and alternate while moving the hands upward)

Down came the rain

(Wiggle fingers down from head to waist)

And washed the spider out.

(The "finish" sign)

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,

(Raise hands above the head, making a circle for "sun")

And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

(Repeat the first movement)

Vocabulary/concepts:

Nouns

spider	rain	sun	monster	presents
ball	Ice cream	friend	balloon	parade
valentines	baby	muffins	puppies	thunderstorm
bed	faces	clothes	bug	blocks
teeth	hands	air

Actions

climbed	washed	came	dried	opening
playing	dancing	waving	watching	melt
losing	rocking	baking	hugging	feel
listening	imagining	hiding	seeing	chased
making	wearing	bugged	splashed	laughed
fall	knock	growling	showing

Feelings

glad	sad	loving	grumpy	worry
funny	silly	angry	scary

Colors

yellow	blue	pink	orange	purple
red	green	white

Other

up	down	out	all	again
big	with	terrible	under	little
upside down	funny	over	sharp	in

Other Language and Motor Skills:                          

auditory and visual attention	turn taking
auditory and visual sequential memory	simple & complex sentences
Pronouns (includes possessive forms)	critical thinking
labeling	function
Following simple motor commands	Wh-questions
various verb tenses	pragmatics
articles (a, an, the)	comparatives
word associations	self-awareness
phonemic awareness	verbal problem solving
Visual motor skills	Feeling concepts