30 Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 1B | Roses Are Red & Ring Around the Rosie
Allow for these variations and restate students’ sentences so that they
are grammatical. Repeat each sentence for students. If necessary,
ask students to repeat your sentence.
Possible simple sentences:
The children play.
The children play “Ring Around the Rosie.”
The children hold hands.
The children have fun.
The girl/name of girl has long hair.
The boy/name of boy has brown hair.
The boy/name of boy has brown pants.
The girl/name of girl wears blue overalls.
The grass is green.
Vocabulary Instructional Activity
Word Work: Sweet
- In the nursery rhyme you heard, “Sugar is sweet.”
- Say the word sweet with me three times.
- Sweet describes the taste of some things. Sweet can also be used to
describe a person who is kind and does nice things. - Many candies are very sweet.
- Tell your partner about something that you think tastes sweet or
someone that you think is sweet. Try to use the word sweet when you
tell about it.
[Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide and/or rephrase the
students’ responses: “I think is sweet.”] - What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
Use a Making Choices activity for follow-up. Designate one area of the
room as the “sweet” area. Designate another as the “not sweet” area.
Have students stand in the starting place.
Directions: I am going to name something. If I name something that you
think is sweet, quietly and carefully walk to the “sweet” area. [Model
walking quietly and carefully to the “sweet” area.]