Tips
Parent Tip: Learning colors, patterns, styles
Song: “What Are You Wearing?” (Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays)
• For teaching about different colors your child is wearing, use the following words to the above tune. Use your child’s name.
Kathy’s wearing a blue dress,
Blue dress, blue dress,
Kathy’s wearing a blue dress
All day long.
• Substitute different colors for whatever else the child is wearing (e.g. yellow ribbon, red socks, white shoes…)
• Also sing about patterns such as stripes, polka dots, flowers, plaid, checkered…(Jimmy’s wearing a striped shirt, …).
Teacher Tip: Learning colors, patterns, styles
Song: “What Are You Wearing?” (Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays)
• For learning about different colors the children are wearing, use the following words to the above tune:
If you are wearing blue today,
Blue today, blue today,
If you are wearing blue today,
Please stand up.
• Substitute other colors that the children are wearing so that all have a chance to stand up.
• For learning about different patterns, use the following words:
If you are wearing stripes today,
Stripes today, stripes today,
If you are wearing stripes today,
Please stand up.
• Substitute other patterns that the children are wearing (e.g. polka dots, plaid, …) so that all have a chance to stand up.
• For learning about different articles of clothing the children are wearing, use the following words:
If you are wearing jeans today,
Jeans today, jeans today,
If you are wearing jeans today,
Please stand up.
• Substitute other styles that the children are wearing (e.g. tennis shoes, a skirt, cords, a sweater …) so that all have a chance to stand up.
• This is a good song to feature a birthday child by singing about what he/she is wearing on his/her birthday. Use the child’s name (Tommy’s wearing…)
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