This song is available on Hap Palmer's Two Little Sounds: Fun with Phonics And Numbers.
Subjects:
Long and short vowel sounds
Vocabulary:
Apple, banana, peach, tomato,
long and short vowels, stretch, long, shrink,
short
Activity:
Start by singing, “I like to eat, eat, eat,
apples and bananas.” Then listen for a new
vowel sound. Keep changing the vowel sounds
in the words “eat” “apples” and “bananas” to
match the vowel sound sung before each line.
After singing the first verse, take a break by
stretching with the long vowel sounds, and
shrinking with the short vowel sounds. Next,
sing the song again using the short vowel
sounds with the words eat, peaches, and
tomatoes.
I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas
A . . . I like to ate, ate, ate,
aypuls and baynaynays
E . . . I like to eet, eet, eet, eeples and beeneenees
I . . . I like to ite, ite, ite, iples and bininis
O . . . I like to ote, ote, ote, oples and bononos
U . . . I like to yute, yute, yute,
yuples and bununus
My stomach’s getting stuffed,
I guess I’ve had enough
I’ll stretch long with the long vowel sounds,
aye, eee, iye, oh, you
And I’ll shrink with the short vowel sounds,
aah, eh, ih, aw, uh
Down, down, down, to the floor . . . aah . . .
I’m ready to eat some more!
I like to eat, eat, eat, peaches and tomatoes
Aah . . . I like to at, at, at, paches and tamatas
Eh . . . I like to et, et, et, peches and temetes
Ih . . . I like to it, it, it, piches and timitis
Aw . . .I like to ot, ot, ot, poches and tomotos
Uh . . . I like to ut, ut, ut, puches and tumutus
My stomach’s getting stuffed,
now I know I’ve had enough
I’ll stretch long with the long vowel sounds,
aye, eee, iye, oh, you
And I’ll shrink with the short vowel sounds,
aah, eh, ih, aw, uh
And I’m dan, den, din, don, done
I’ve got to ran, ren, rin, ron, run!
Follow-up:
Think of other vegetables and
fruits that were not named in this song.
For example: potatoes, papayas, cherries,
broccoli, asparagus, carrots, cabbage. Try
changing the vowel sounds on a variety of
foods and sing this song again using foods
you have selected.
Book Suggestions for this Song:
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