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Chants are easy to make up. I made this one up for my 5-6 year olds. They had already begun learning animals. We chanted it together and did actions for the different animals. (pretended to splash water etc)

My name’s Fred and I’m a frog – jump, jump, jump

My name’s Kate and I’m a cat – miaow, miaow, miaow

My name’s Fergie and I’m a fish – splash, splash, splash

My name’s Micky and I’m a mouse – squeak, squeak, squeak

My name’s Benny and I’m a bird – flap, flap, flap

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Set up paper plates around the class or outside and have them jump from one to the next. If you have different color plates, there’s lots of options!

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Some kids find learning the alphabet boring and hard to do. This educational activity teaches kids how to use the keyboard and encourages them to have fun whilst learning the alphabet.

You need Computer.

Activity

You can use any program for this (word, excel, an open email, notebook, etc).

Get your child started by showing them how to find each letter in the alphabet on the keyboard and enter them in order.

They will touch the "A" key first, then "Enter" – which will take them to the next line in most programs – then touch "B", "Enter" and so on.

Check their work at the end to see if they have included all of the letters in order (using the ABC song will help).

Encourage them by doing it again and again and see how much further they can get.

They will not only learn the keyboard but also reinforce the alphabet along the way.

A great one for learning numbers greater than 10 as well.

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Category Spin: Sit Ss in a circle.  Spin a bottle or an arrow - the S that the arrow points to is first.  The S needs to say a word from a pre-decided category.  The next S will say last word plus his own and so on until it gets to the one who fails.  For example: S1:"zebra", S2: "zebra cat", S3: "zebra cat dog".

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Color Game: This is a good one for teaching the names of colors to young children. Arrange various colors of construction paper in a circle. Play some music and have the children march around the circle. Stop the music and all the children must sit down next to a color. Pick a color and sing (to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"): "Who's beside the color (insert name of color)? Please stand up, if it's you." At that point, the child next to the color mentioned stands up. Continue until all of the children get a turn. (submitted by Josie Weisner).

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Action Race: This is a fun game using actions. Use actions like jump, hop, clap, run etc. Have the Ss split into two teams and sit in lines with a chair by each team and one chair at the other end of the room. One S from each team stands next to their chair and T calls an action, e.g. "Jump". Ss must jump to the chair on the other side of the room and back, sitting down in their chair Ss say "I can jump". First one to do it gets their team a point. (Submitted by Gareth Thomas).

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Drama Games for Primary School Children : Preschool Education & Beyond