G is for games. We played classic children’s games instead of our usual activities.
Opening Song
Wiggle Song
Literacy Activity: Letter G
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Sign Language: play, again
Book: Pat-a-Cake by Child’s World
Active Game: Pat-a-Cake Game
How to Play Pat-a-Cake
1. For the first 2 lines of the song, each player claps their own hands together, then uses one hand to clap the other player’s alternate hand.
2. For the “roll it” portion of the third line, make fists with both hands and bicycle your arms one over the other
3. For the “pat it” portion of the third line, use a flat hand to make a patting motion – pretending to smash down a ball of cake mix.
4. Draw an invisible “B” in the air with their index finger.
5. Act out opening and placing an item in the oven, then brings their arms in to rock a pretend baby.
Lyrics
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man.
Bake me a cake, as fast as you can!
Roll it, Pat it,
And mark it with a “B” for baby and me!
For baby and me
For baby and me!
Pat it and mark it with a “B”
Put it in the oven for baby and me!
Book: Hide-and-Seek: A First Book of Position Words by R.D. Ornot
Feltboard Game: Bear Behind the Chair
Place a bunch of colored chairs on the board with a little bear behind one. (Hide and seek version of Little Mouse.)
Little bear, little bear. Are you behind the ________ chair?
Book: Peekaboo Morning by Rachel Isadora
Game: Peek-a-Boo
I handed out this list of games and we played Peek-a-Boo.
Closing Song
Activity: Instead of a craft, we played the following games:
Keepy Uppy
Simon Says
Freeze Dance
Hokey Pokey
Additional Material: I handed out a booklet on games from the following website:
Genius of Play: Let’s Play
Fun for Children at the Library 