Kindergarden - Kings and Queens

74 Kings and Queens: Supplemental Guide 3A | Old King Cole

[Explain that a fine fiddle is a very nice fiddle.]

Oh, there’s none so rare as can compare

With King Cole and his fiddlers three.

[Explain that this means there are very few things that could be better than

listening to the fiddlers play music.]

Third Read Using Echo Technique

 Show image 4A-1: Old King Cole

Directions: I am going to say the first line of “Old King Cole.” Then you

will echo the words.

[Pause after each line to give students time to echo.]

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,

And a merry old soul was he;

He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl,

And he called for his fiddlers three.

Every fiddler had a very fine fiddle,

And a very fine fiddle had he.

Oh, there’s none so rare as can compare

With King Cole and his fiddlers three.

Fourth Read Using Echo Technique with Motions

 Show image 4A-1: Old King Cole

Directions: I am going to say the first line of “Old King Cole” and do

the motions that go with it. Then you will echo the words as you also

repeat the motions.

[Pause after each line to give students time to echo and do the motions.]

[Have students swing their arms to the beat of the rhyme with smiles on their

faces.]

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,

And a merry old soul was he;