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The Talking Stone and the Listening Pebbles

Materials
A clean, medium-sized stone
Many pebbles
Instructions
1. Teach the children the following verse:
Hello, everybody,
Hello, everybody,
Hello, hello, hello.
2. Then substitute the following for hello:
Guten Tag (Gooten Tock) (German)
Jambo (Johm-bo) (African)
Hola (Oh-lah) (Spanish)
Neeha (Chinese)
Bonjour (Bon-joor) (French)
Salaam (Sah-lamn) (Arabic)
Shalom (Shah-loam) (Hebrew)
G'day (Australian)
More to do
Ask the children to hold up a flag of the country for which they are saying
"hello."