>> You guys want to do the Wiggle song?
Our Wiggle book?
Here, sit down.
I'll show you.
Ready? Where's your worms?
Find your worms.
[Chanting] Five little worms
are sitting in the garden.
One tunnels [phonetic] underground.
Then there are four little wiggle
worms playing in the garden,
one tunnels underground, and then there are?
>> Four.
>> Four!
[Chanting] Four little wiggle
worms playing in the garden.
One tunnels underground, then there was?
>> Three.
>> Three.
[Chanting] Three little wiggle
worms playing in the garden,
one tunneled underground, then there was?
>> One.
>> Two.
[Chanting] Two little wiggle
worm playing in the garden.
One tunneled underground, then there were?
[ Inaudible ]
One.
[Chanting] One little wiggle
worm playing in the garden.
He tunneled underground, then there was none.
They all went underground to eat.
What we do is when we find a chant or
book, we usually get the vocabularies.
We pull the vocabularies out
of the book or the chants.
We try to make movements with them, like
when they wiggle, you wiggle your fingers,
they jiggle or they move their bodies.
We also try to do dramatic play with
them, using puppets and fingerplays.
We initiate the activities
by observing the children.
It is very important to try
and pick up some vocabularies
that they can use throughout the weekly plan.
When we choose our vocabularies, we try to
choose it off an anchor text that we use.
We utilize it with books, songs, chants.
We post them throughout the
classroom, so that they are --
we are able to speak with
them throughout the day.
While the children are playing, it catches
their eye, and they start using it.
They memorize, they pretty much
memorize the chant, or the song,
or the book that we're using, and
they tell the story to themselves,
or to their peers, or even to the teachers.
Yesterday, you had some worms at your house?
Did you find them?
Where did you find them?
Where do the worms live?
>> In the garden.
>> In the garden.
What do they eat?
>> They eat dirt, huh, when they're hungry.
What happens when it rains?
>> The rain [inaudible].
>> The rain comes down on them.
>> They make puzzles.
>> They make puzzles.
Yeah? Do you like to make
puzzles with the worms?
Do they wiggle?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> They go like this.
>> How? Show me.
>> Then they move.
>> Like this.
>> they wiggle like that on your hand?
Does it tickle your fingers?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, when you touch them?
Using repetition is very
important with our toddlers.
That's why we use vocabulary
words over and over,
so that they can remember
what we're telling them.
And that's where -- they're using the words
they can add to that, so to make sentences,
whether it's one word, two words.
And when they're chanting the songs, it's
pretty much putting the vocabulary into them,
so that they know how to say it in a sentence.
And so sometimes, you do -- you hear the
kids saying the chants throughout the day,
and we continue it with them.
We sing it with them.
Or if they see the book out on the shelf,
they'll pull it out, and we read it to them,
and that helps them with their vocabulary.