WEBVTT 00:00:00.066 --> 00:00:01.606 >> You guys want to do the Wiggle song? 00:00:02.776 --> 00:00:03.556 Our Wiggle book? 00:00:03.656 --> 00:00:04.366 Here, sit down. 00:00:04.506 --> 00:00:05.366 I'll show you. 00:00:07.086 --> 00:00:08.156 Ready? Where's your worms? 00:00:08.776 --> 00:00:09.456 Find your worms. 00:00:10.686 --> 00:00:12.996 [Chanting] Five little worms are sitting in the garden. 00:00:13.076 --> 00:00:13.786 One tunnels [phonetic] underground. 00:00:13.786 --> 00:00:15.896 Then there are four little wiggle worms playing in the garden, 00:00:15.926 --> 00:00:16.976 one tunnels underground, and then there are? 00:00:17.506 --> 00:00:17.856 >> Four. 00:00:18.116 --> 00:00:18.976 >> Four! 00:00:19.596 --> 00:00:23.246 [Chanting] Four little wiggle worms playing in the garden. 00:00:23.246 --> 00:00:25.696 One tunnels underground, then there was? 00:00:26.486 --> 00:00:27.226 >> Three. 00:00:27.306 --> 00:00:29.476 >> Three. 00:00:30.416 --> 00:00:33.786 [Chanting] Three little wiggle worms playing in the garden, 00:00:34.246 --> 00:00:37.616 one tunneled underground, then there was? 00:00:38.716 --> 00:00:39.236 >> One. 00:00:39.766 --> 00:00:41.426 >> Two. 00:00:42.476 --> 00:00:46.316 [Chanting] Two little wiggle worm playing in the garden. 00:00:46.406 --> 00:00:48.976 One tunneled underground, then there were? 00:00:49.516 --> 00:00:51.996 [ Inaudible ] 00:00:52.496 --> 00:00:53.976 One. 00:00:54.386 --> 00:00:57.436 [Chanting] One little wiggle worm playing in the garden. 00:00:57.596 --> 00:01:03.976 He tunneled underground, then there was none. 00:01:04.166 --> 00:01:05.306 They all went underground to eat. 00:01:05.306 --> 00:01:09.506 What we do is when we find a chant or book, we usually get the vocabularies. 00:01:09.536 --> 00:01:12.076 We pull the vocabularies out of the book or the chants. 00:01:12.726 --> 00:01:16.406 We try to make movements with them, like when they wiggle, you wiggle your fingers, 00:01:16.406 --> 00:01:18.006 they jiggle or they move their bodies. 00:01:18.166 --> 00:01:23.506 We also try to do dramatic play with them, using puppets and fingerplays. 00:01:23.726 --> 00:01:28.046 We initiate the activities by observing the children. 00:01:28.586 --> 00:01:32.856 It is very important to try and pick up some vocabularies 00:01:32.856 --> 00:01:36.536 that they can use throughout the weekly plan. 00:01:37.146 --> 00:01:42.266 When we choose our vocabularies, we try to choose it off an anchor text that we use. 00:01:43.356 --> 00:01:47.036 We utilize it with books, songs, chants. 00:01:47.716 --> 00:01:50.756 We post them throughout the classroom, so that they are -- 00:01:51.396 --> 00:01:55.066 we are able to speak with them throughout the day. 00:01:55.186 --> 00:02:00.436 While the children are playing, it catches their eye, and they start using it. 00:02:00.666 --> 00:02:04.316 They memorize, they pretty much memorize the chant, or the song, 00:02:04.656 --> 00:02:08.776 or the book that we're using, and they tell the story to themselves, 00:02:08.776 --> 00:02:10.976 or to their peers, or even to the teachers. 00:02:13.866 --> 00:02:18.456 Yesterday, you had some worms at your house? 00:02:18.456 --> 00:02:19.516 Did you find them? 00:02:19.956 --> 00:02:20.686 Where did you find them? 00:02:21.076 --> 00:02:22.846 Where do the worms live? 00:02:22.926 --> 00:02:24.466 >> In the garden. 00:02:24.766 --> 00:02:25.776 >> In the garden. 00:02:25.986 --> 00:02:26.816 What do they eat? 00:02:26.976 --> 00:02:33.876 >> They eat dirt, huh, when they're hungry. 00:02:33.876 --> 00:02:37.326 What happens when it rains? 00:02:37.486 --> 00:02:37.866 >> The rain [inaudible]. 00:02:38.326 --> 00:02:40.486 >> The rain comes down on them. 00:02:40.486 --> 00:02:42.176 >> They make puzzles. 00:02:43.376 --> 00:02:44.356 >> They make puzzles. 00:02:44.846 --> 00:02:47.826 Yeah? Do you like to make puzzles with the worms? 00:02:48.486 --> 00:02:49.286 Do they wiggle? 00:02:49.446 --> 00:02:50.386 >> Yeah. 00:02:50.906 --> 00:02:51.266 >> Yeah. 00:02:51.266 --> 00:02:52.026 >> They go like this. 00:02:52.026 --> 00:02:53.556 >> How? Show me. 00:02:53.606 --> 00:02:54.486 >> Then they move. 00:02:54.486 --> 00:02:55.326 >> Like this. 00:02:55.636 --> 00:02:56.916 >> they wiggle like that on your hand? 00:02:56.916 --> 00:02:59.446 Does it tickle your fingers? 00:02:59.646 --> 00:03:00.296 >> Yeah. 00:03:00.436 --> 00:03:01.576 >> Yeah, when you touch them? 00:03:02.036 --> 00:03:04.656 Using repetition is very important with our toddlers. 00:03:05.266 --> 00:03:09.316 That's why we use vocabulary words over and over, 00:03:09.316 --> 00:03:12.226 so that they can remember what we're telling them. 00:03:12.416 --> 00:03:18.896 And that's where -- they're using the words they can add to that, so to make sentences, 00:03:19.346 --> 00:03:21.216 whether it's one word, two words. 00:03:21.836 --> 00:03:26.946 And when they're chanting the songs, it's pretty much putting the vocabulary into them, 00:03:26.996 --> 00:03:30.106 so that they know how to say it in a sentence. 00:03:30.936 --> 00:03:35.696 And so sometimes, you do -- you hear the kids saying the chants throughout the day, 00:03:36.346 --> 00:03:37.866 and we continue it with them. 00:03:37.866 --> 00:03:38.786 We sing it with them. 00:03:39.276 --> 00:03:43.936 Or if they see the book out on the shelf, they'll pull it out, and we read it to them, 00:03:44.096 --> 00:03:45.766 and that helps them with their vocabulary.