This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can A Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?
Skills and Concepts:
- Skip counting by twos, fives and tens
- Recognizing number patterns
- Working together as a team
Vocabulary:
tug, pull, tight, tense, relaxed, loose
Activity:
This activity is basically a good old fashioned "Tug of War," with 2 - 8 people on a team. Lay the rope out
on the floor. The teams face each other and line up by the rope. When the participants hear the words, Tuga-
tug, they pick up the rope and start pulling. As they pull, they count to the number named in each verse,
then quickly drop the rope. The challenge is knowing when to drop the rope and stop pulling. In verse one,
children count by 2's to 22; in verse two they count by 5's to 55; in verse three they count by 10's to 110.
Tug-a-tug-a-tug-a up to twenty-two
Plant your shoes and count by twos to twenty-two
Exercise your body as you energize your mind
And tug-a-tug to twenty two
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22
Tug-a-tug-a-tug-a up to fifty-five
Come alive and count by fives to fifty-five
Exercise your body as you energize your mind
And tug-a-tug to fifty five
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55
Tug-a-tug-a-tug-a to a hundred and ten
Join your friends and count by tens to a hundred and ten
Exercise your body as you energize your mind
And tug-a to a hundred and ten
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
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