Chant with a Swing Beat (Like Five Little Monkeys Swingin in the Tree )

Grocery Store

Chant with a swing beat (like “Five Little Monkeys Swingin’ in the Tree”)

BBCD#4, Track #20

This works well as a small-group activity. Have song card with enough foods ready to go (for the number of children you have in small group). Each child has pretend coins or coin cutouts below. On his/her turn, child pays the clerk (teacher or designated child) then takes the food he/she chooses off the page. Group or individual child counts how many foods are left each time.

Children can also think of other foods that are sold at a grocery store, and say the chant using their ideas. Additional foods/pictures can be used to graph healthy and unhealthy foods, to explore multicultural foods, typical breakfast foods, traditional holiday foods, etc. As an art activity, have the children make their own pictures of food to put into the grocery store!

COR Advantage: J – Fine motor, K – Personal care and healthy behavior, N – Phonological awareness, S – Numbers and counting, Y – Music, AA – Pretend play, BB – Observing and classifying

There were 9 good foods at the grocery store,

And they made your tummy - want some more!

Along came Tony with a quarter to pay, (insert child’s name)

He bought an apple and he took it away.

apple yogurt broccoli

milk carrots chicken

BananaAsopao Lo-Mein

Dal Bhat

Try the following idea from Moving Minds:

Equipment:

Plastic coins or real change
Pictures of food ( “groceries”) and of store
2- Styrofoam blocks with slits to put money into
Movement path (chair tunnel & hopscotch) between coins and “grocery store”

Set-up:

Space of approximately 15 feet; at 1 end is the “grocery store” (food & store picture and Styrofoam with containing 1-of-each coin placed in a row) and at the other end is “home” (Styrofoam with all the coins).
2-adults : one stationed at the “home” and the other at the “grocery store”
Line up 2-chairs to create a tunnel
Hopscotch leading from “store” > “home.

Activity:

Start at the “home” end of the movement path. The adult tells child to take a coin or to take a specific coin (quarter, dime, nickel, and penny).
Child takes the coin and commando crawls (stomach on the floor, legs kept still & straight, using arms only to move), under the chairs to the “store”
The adult, at the “store”, tells the child that for (that coin), he can buy (names of food). Child takes the picture of that food and pays by placing his coin in the Styrofoam under the matching coin.
Child then hopscotches with the food picture back “home”.

Target Skills:

Dexterity

Finger strengthening

Endurance

Motor planning

Balance

Coin & Food identification