Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 4A | Jack and Jill 71

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4 A

Introducing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

Introducing “Jack and Jill”

 Show image 4A-1: Jack and Jill tumbling down hill

• Tell the students, “Tell your partner what you see in this picture.
  What is happening to the boy and girl?” Call on two partner pairs to
  describe the picture.


• Tell students that the next nursery rhyme they are going to hear is
  called “Jack and Jill.” Tell students that there are two characters in
  this nursery rhyme—Jack and Jill. Point to Jack, then point to Jill.


• Point up the hill. Tell students that in this poem, a boy named Jack
  and a girl named Jill go up a hill to get some water.


• Point to the well. Tell students that some people get their water from
  wells.


• Give students Response Card 7 (Jack and Jill) from Instructional
  Master 4A-1. Have them point out the characters in this poem—Jack
  and Jill. Have them point out the well at the top of the hill. Tell them to
  use this Response Card to refer to “Jack and Jill.”

Vocabular y Preview

Pail

1. In today’s poem, you will hear that Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch
   a pail of water.


2. Say the word pail with me three times.


3. A pail is a bucket that you can use to hold things in.
   [Show students an example of a pail. Tell them some things you can
   do with a pail.]


4. Shaolin and Hannah put the strawberries they picked in a pail.


5. Tell your partner how you could use a pail. Use the word pail when
   you tell about it.