Teacher Janice writes about traditions, new and old, and how meaningful it is to simply share time together – http://www.teacherjanice.com/home/traditions
Winter Songs and Poems
It is Snowing
It is snowing, it is snowing
All around, all around
Soft and pretty snowflakes
Soft and pretty snowflakes
On the ground, on the ground.
Ring the Bells
Ring, ring, ring your bells
Ring them loud and clear
To tell the children everywhere
That Circle Time is here.
Ring, ring, ring your bells
Ring them all around
Ring them loud, ring them soft
And know do not make a sound.
Bells
Did you ever shake your bells, your bell, your bells,
Did you ever shake your bells on your ______
Shake them high, shake them low
Shake them high, shake them low
Did you ever shake your bells on your ______
Snowman
I’m a chubby snowman short and fat
Here is my broomstick and here is my hat
When the sun come out and shines all day
I just start to melt away….
Oh no I’m a puddle!
Baby Beluga
by Raffi and Debi Pike
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above, and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, is the water warm?
Is your mama home with you, so happy.
Way down yonder where the dolphins play,
Where they dive and splash all day,
The waves roll in and the waves roll out,
See the water squirting out of your spout.
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, sing your little song,
Sing for all your friends, we like to hear you.
When it’s dark, you’re home and fed,
Curl up snug in your water bed.
Moon is shining and the stars are out,
Good night, little whale, goodnight.
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, with tomorrow’s sun,
Another day’s begun, you’ll soon be waking.
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.
You’re just a little white whale on the go.
Fireman Song
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding
Hurry, hurry drive the firetruck x 3
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding
Hurry, hurry, hurry, turn the corner x3
Hurry, hurry climb the ladder x3
Hurry, hurry, hurry, spray the water x3
shprssshhh
It’s all right the fires out now x3
Drive back to the station.
Mitten Song
Thumbs in the thumb place, fingers all together.
this is the song we sing in mitten weather
When it is cold it doesn’t matter whether
mittens are wool or finest leather
Thumbs in the thumb place fingers all together
this is the song we sing in mitten weather.
What Shall We Give the Children?
What shall we give the children?
The holidays are here.
Toys, and games, and playthings
As we do every year?
Yes, for the magic of toyland
Is part of the holiday lore
To gladden the hearts of childhood
But I shall give something more.
I shall give them more patience,
A more sympathetic ear,
A little more time for laughter,
Or tenderly dry a tear.
I shall take time to teach them
The joy of doing some task.
And try to find time to answer
All the questions they seem to ask.
We’ll read some books together
And take long walks in the sun;
Take time for a bedtime story
After the day is done.
I shall give these things to my children,
Which will weave a closer tie,
Knitting our lives together
With the gifts that money can’t buy.