Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 5A | This Little Pig Went to Market 87

Introducing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

 Recitation of Nursery Rhymes

• During the course of this domain, find an opportunity to assess each
  student’s ability to recite a nursery rhyme that has been taught, using
  Instructional Master 3B-2.


• You may wish to review a few nursery rhymes as a class using echo
  technique with motions.

Introducing “This Little Pig Went to Market”

 Show image 5A-1: Photo of pig

• Call on a different student to answer each of the following questions:
  
  
  • What do you see in this picture?
  
  
  • What kinds of things do pigs do?
  
  
  • What kinds of things do pigs eat?
  
  
  • Where do pigs live?
  
  
  • What do pigs look like?
     Show image 5A-2: Five pigs
  
  
  
  


• Tell students that the next nursery rhyme they are going to hear is
  called “This Little Pig Went to Market.” Tell students that there are five
  characters in this nursery rhyme—five pigs.


• Count the number of pigs together as a class, in different languages
  your students are able to speak.


• Review the names of the fingers: thumb, index finger, middle finger,
  ring finger, and pinky. Tell students that when you say this nursery
  rhyme, each finger will represent a pig.

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