This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can A Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?
Skills and Concepts:
- Recognizing numbers one through five
- Developing balance, coordination and strength
- Enahancing creative problem solving abilities
Vocabulary:
wagon, dog, frog, trike, cane, clown, pogo stick, penguin, duck, starfish, boogie, cruise, ramble, amble,
hop, wiggle, wobble, waddle, dawdle, jam along, jive, creep
Activity:
Children create ways of traveling around the room and contacting the floor with the number of body parts
named in each verse of this song.
Boogie down and cruise on four parts
Boogie down and cruise on four
Like a wagon or a dog, or a frog on a log
Boogie down and cruise on four
Ramble and amble on three parts
Ramble and amble on three
Like a trike in the lane or a man with a cane
Ramble and amble on three
Be bop and hop on one part
Be bop and hop on one
Like a clown doing tricks on a pogo stick
Be bop and hop on one
Wiggle and wobble on two parts
Wiggle and wobble on two
Like a penguin waddles or a ducky dawdles
Wiggle and wobble on two
Jam along and jive on five parts
Jam along and jive on five
Like starfish creep in the ocean deep
Jam along and jive on five
Boogie down and cruise on any number
Boogie down and cruise around
What you do is up to you
Boogie down and cruise around
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