educated for love

singing and signing:
Good Morning Dear Earth
Good Morning Dear Sun
Good Morning to the Trees
and the Flowers everywhere
Good Morning to the Beasts
And the Birds in the Trees
Good Morning to YOU and
Good Morning to ME

movement and singing:
My lady Spring is dressed in green
She wears a primrose crown
And little tiny buds and twigs
Are clinging to her gown
The sun shines if she laughs at all
But if she cries, the raindrops fall

math:
9 green clover by the garden gate
(name) picked one and that left 8.

8 green clover stretching to the heavens
(name) picked one and that left 7.

7 green clover growing near some sticks
(name) picked one and that left 6.

6 green clover, feeling so alive
(name) picked one and that left 5.

5 green clover by my front door
(name) picked one and that left 4.

4 green clover by a mighty oak tree
(name) picked one and that left 3.

3 green clover playing peek a boo
(name) picked one and that left 2.

2 green clover nodding in the sun
(name) picked one and that left 1.

1 green clover for some springtime fun,
(name) picked it...and that left none!

Steady Beat (use rods - shift L/R)tap in center, outside, with neighbor)
CLICK BEETLE
CLACK BEETLE
WEAR IT IN YOUR HAT BEETLE

UP BEETLE
DOWN BEETLE
ALL AROUND THE TOWN BEETLE

IN BEETLE
OUT BEETLE
GO ALL ABOUT BEETLE

CLICK BEETLE
CLACK BEETLE
WEAR IN IN YOUR HAT BEETLE

A song to act out:
Let's dig a little garden, garden, garden
Let's dig a little garden this sunny april day

Let's rake...
Let's plant...
Let's watch...

A Little Seed Drama:
The little brown seeds went to sleep in the ground.
In their little brown nightgowns they slept very sound.
Old Winter, he roared and he raged overhead.
But the little brown seeds did not move in their bed.

But when Spring came tiptoeing over the lea
with fingers to lips as soft as can be.
“Wake!” called the Sunshine, “And creep to the light!”
“Wake!” called the Raindrops bright!

The little brown seeds just lifted their heads,
Slipped off their nighties and jumped out of bed!!

Cast of Characters:

four seeds - hidden under a brown cloth
Old Winter - a blue cape or cloth to drape
Spring - a cloth or silk cape
Sun - painted sun on pole
Raindrops - painted drops on pole

Movement in space:
Ring Around a Rosey

STories:
Peter Rabbit
Little Bunny Foo Foo (singing story)
3 Billy Goats Gruff (with natural props - blocks and blue silk for river)