Stop and Go

This week for Large Group we learned about the words "stop" and "go".  We also worked on using "ing" words and answering questions.

 

To work on those things, we used the rhythm sticks.  We listened for Teacher Heidi to say "go" and we tapped our sticks together or on the carpet until we heard her say "stop".  When she said "stop", we held our sticks up in the air until we heard the word "go" again.  We practiced understanding "stop and go" by tapping, rolling, waving, sliding and hammering our sticks.

We practiced using "ing" words by singing this song while we did different actions with the sticks:

Tapping, tapping, tapping

Tapping, tapping, tapping

Tapping, tapping, tapping

Now let's stop.

We sang this song using the words rolling, waving, sliding and hammering.

We each got a turn to choose how we were going to use the sticks as we sang the song.  We chose to twirl, circle, pound, drum, make ears, rub, roll, walk and many others.

You can practice the same concepts at home by playing Do As I'm Doing.  You and your child can take turns choosing an action and then saying, "go" to start and "stop" to end.  You can model using "ing" words to describe what you and your child are doing.