Hi-Ho

Ready

• When the children hear you begin to sing the following little song, they know it is time to stop, look, listen, and then clean!

Set

• The words make cleaning sound like fun and incorporate the concepts of up, down, high, and low.

Go

• Sing the following to the tune of "It's Off to Work We Go."

  Hi-ho, hi-ho
  It's off to clean we go.
  We'll clean up high
  And clean down low,
  Hi-ho, hi-ho!

Another Transition Idea

• An alternative is to have the children repeat the song, incorporating the following actions (in parentheses), before they begin to clean.

  Hi-ho, hi-ho (pump fist into air twice)
  It's off to clean we go. (mime sweeping)
  We'll clean up high (reach high)
  And clean down low (bend low)
  Hi-ho, hi-ho! (again pump fist into air twice)