Materials
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Instructions
1. Talk about chickens and what they eat.
2. Teach the following rhyme to the children.
3. Have the children practice the actions mentioned in the rhyme. Encourage them to put a lot of facial, body, and vocal expression into the reaction of the little chicks.
4. Choose four children to be the chicks and one to be the mother hen. These five children act out the rhyme as the other children sing it.
5. Choose a different group of children to do the actions or, alternately, all the children can do all the actions each time.Four Little ChickensSaid the first little chicken,With an odd little squirm,"I wish I could find a fat little worm."Said the second little chicken,With an odd little shrug,"I wish I could find a fat little bug."Said the third little chicken,With a small sigh of grief,"I wish I could find a green little leaf."Said the fourth little chicken,With a faint little moan,"I wish I could find a little gravel stone.""Now, see here!" said their mother,From the green garden patch."If you want any breakfast,You must scratch, scratch, scratch!"
