This song is available on Hap Palmer's album Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?
Skills and Concepts:
- recognizing initial consonant sounds
- understanding blends
- developing phonemic awareness
Vocabulary:
blender, slender, sled, slip, slide, slippery, slope, truck, trapped, traffic, Tripoli (the capital of Libya on
the northern coast of Africa) platypus, pluck, plunger, plumber, drowsy, drift, drop, drawbridge, statue, suddenly, stomp, startle, flock, flamingo, flamenco, flip, flap, flick, flashy, feathers.
Activity:
Each verse starts by naming two letters.
Children first, make the sound of each letter, then listen for the
sound of the blend in the words that make up the sentence that follows. During the instrumental portion, children repeat the sentence, or make up their own sentence using words that begin with the blend.
Take an S, and an L, put them in the blender
And Slim's slender sled slips and slides down slippery slopes
Take a T, and an R, put them in the blender
And Trina's truck gets trapped in traffic on a trip to Tripoli
We take two letters
Toss them in the blender
See what they will render
When they get together
They make another sound and a whole lot of words
We'd like to share a few we have heard
Take a P, and an L, put them in the blender
The playful platypus plucks the plunger from the plumber
Take a D, and an R, put them in the blender
And the drowsy driver drifts to sleep
and drops right off the drawbridge
We take two letters
Toss them in the blender
See what they will render
When they get together
They make another sound and a whole lot of words
We'd like to share a few we have heard
Take an S, and an T, put them in the blender
And Stacey stands still as a statue ...
Then suddenly stomps and startles Steven
Take an F, and an L, put them in the blender
And a flock of flamingos dance flamenco
And flip, flap, flick their flashy feathers
Book Suggestions for this song:
See more of our Phonemic Awareness Song Lyrics.
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