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