When the children get good at doing this version of the game, you can move on to the slightly harder version. Waiting your turn is an important social skill to reinforce (and one all Kindergarteners need more practice with).

Use your imagination to lead your students in a marching band with steady beat moves to some great American Marches. The song has been used for numerous purposes since its release including various adverts (including one in 2006 for financial company Capital One) and in numerous films and television programmes (including the Doctor Who episode " Tooth and Claw" and the 1979 film adaption of Porridge) It has had its lyrics changed often, including in one instance to 'hit me with your oven chip'. This, combined with its continued popularity and original chart success has ensured that today the song is easy to find on ‘best of’ compilation albums. So, for example, if it was the cucumber, you all go ‘cu (hit)-cum-(hit) -ber (hit)! One (hit)-two (hit)-three (hit)!’ Repeat this two or three times, so they start to understand what is going on. (You are hitting the syllables at the same time as you say them, by the way) Another simple twist to any of the different songs or chants or nursery rhymes you do in class is simply to add an “echo me” section. Children really love this game, and it is one of the best ways to get them to think about rhythm and syllables in words.

Take a repeated rhythm pattern (or a few of them) and use them as an ostinato to go along with the song.

Another way to extend this game is use more unusual words, such as ‘rapidly’, ‘pianissimo’, and ‘furiously’. There is so much going on! Multisensory quite simply means, as you can probably guess, that more than one sense is stimulated at the same time.Put four heart shapes across a Google Slide (copy and paste them to make sure they’re the same size. This game is great for beginning the process of thinking about writing sentences later on. When children begin to write sentences, they will be beginning to break the flow of speech into words. Teaching about loud and quiet/fast and slow. You can hit them in all sorts of different ways and learn about how sound works!