This song is available on Hap Palmer's Two Little Sounds: Fun with Phonics And Numbers.
Subjects:
Initial consonants: H, D, R, W, B,
T, P, G
• Blends: CR, SN, SQ
• Numbers 1 – 12
• Telling time on the hour
• Word families: ick, ock
Vocabulary:
Mouse, rat, worm, cricket, bee,
snake, squirrel, toad, poodle, gorilla
Activity:
How would you say the words
hickory, dickory, dock if you took off the beginning
sound for each of the words? Let’s all
say it together, “ickory, ickory, ock.” What
letter does the word “rat” begin with? What
would it sound like if we put the ‘r’ sound in
front of the words ickory, ickory, ock? Let’s all
say it together, “rickory, rickory, rock.” Now
let’s sing this variation of the familiar favorite,
Hickory, Dickory, Dock. We’ll start with the
traditional first verse. Each verse that follows
features a different animal.
Hickory, dickory, dock
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one, the mouse ran down
Hickory, dickory, dock
Then a rat came by, said, “Rickory rock
Make room for me and I’ll run up the clock!”
Rickory, rickory, rock,
The rat ran up the clock,
The clock struck two, the rat said, “boo!”
Rickory, rickory, rock
Then a worm came by, said, “Wickory wock
Make room for me and I’ll wiggle up the clock!”
Wickory, wickory, wock
The worm wiggled up the clock,
The clock struck three, the worm said, “whee!”
Wickory, wickory, wock
Then a cricket came by, said, “Crickory, crock
Let me come along and I’ll sing you a song”
Crickory, crickory, crock
The cricket crawled up the clock,
The clock struck four, the cricket sang,
more, more, more, more
Crickory, crickory, crock
At five o’clock a bee buzzed up,
bickory, bickory, bock,
At six o’clock a snake slithered up,
snickory, snickory, snock
At seven o’clock a squirrel squirmed up,
squickory, squickory, squock
At eight o’clock a toad trudged up,
tickory, tickory, tock
At nine o’clock a poodle pranced up,
pickory, pickory, pock
At ten o’clock, gorilla awoke and roared,
“Too much noise !”
Gickory, gickory, gock, gorilla grabbed the clock
The clock struck ten, gorilla growled, “The end!”
Gickory, gickory, gock
Gorilla crawled back in his bed
and he began to snore
And little mouse snuck right by “shhh”
and climbed the clock once more
Hickory, dickory, dock
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck eleven,
the mouse said, “Good heavens! - It’s late”
Hickory, dickory, dock
At twelve o’clock, everyone was asleep
Follow-up:
Name all the animals you can
remember from this song. Name some animals
that were not in this song. Try chanting this
rhyme using the names of different animals.
Examples:
Lion: lickory, lickory, lock
Jaguar: jickory, jickory, jock
Cheetah: chickory, chickory, chock
Yak: yickory, yickory, yock
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