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Materials

sheets of different colored paperscissors

Instructions

1. Trace and cut out outlines of a unicycle, a bicycle, a tricycle, and a tractor.

2. Give a cutout to four different children.

3. Recite the following poem with the children. The children with the cutouts hold up their cutout at the appropriate time.

4. Repeat to let other children have a turn holding the cutouts.Elmore DonkeyElmore Donkey lives in the countryAnd rides a unicycle, which is fun.How many wheels does it have?It has only one.Elmore Donkey lives in the countryAnd rides a bicycle, which is blue.How many wheels does it have?It has but two.Elmore Donkey lives in the countryAnd rides a tricycle around a tree.How many wheels does it have?It has exactly three.Elmore Donkey lives in the countryAnd rides a tractor with farmer Moore.How many wheels does it have?It has precisely four.

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