>> 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.
[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.
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.
Yeah? Do you like to make puzzles with the worms?
Do they wiggle?
>> 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.