Materials
None
Instructions
Invite the children to recite the following rhyme.
Five Little Monkeys
Five little monkeys swinging in a tree, (hold up number of fingers)
Teasing Mr. Alligator, (use finger to point and tease)
"Can't catch me, (wave finger back and forth)
Can't catch me."
Along comes Mr. Alligator (make quiet swimming motion with arms as if in water)
Quiet as can be (say very quietly)
And he snatched that monkey right out of the tree. (make an opening and closing
motion with hands)
Four little monkeys swinging in the tree...
Three little monkeys swinging in the tree...
(continue until Mr. Alligator snatches the last of the monkeys from the tree)
No little monkeys swinging in the tree,
Teasing Mr. Alligator:
"Can't catch me."
So Mr. Alligator says, "Yum, yum, yum."
