Copy Miss Danece as she shows the movements. Simplify if you need to.

Watch and listen to the lyrics video for the song.

Play it again and sing along.

Play the game. The teacher is Farmer Brown.
The students are little bunnies trying to get into his garden.
Line the bunnies up on one side of the room.
As you sing/listen to the song, on every 2nd beat, the bunnies take a small jump closer. At the end of the song, Farmer Brown shoos the bunnies out of the garden and they go back to their starting point.

I do - We do - You do

Use the interactive activity to model for your students how to create and perform a word rhythm composition.

For example, clap "carrot" and stomp "corn."
Do you like it? Keep it. If not, try it another way.

After modelling for students, give them the carrot/corn cards to create their own patterns.

Create word rhythms using vegetable words!

Print and cut the corn/carrot cards provided. Create a pattern with them. Say and clap the words. You could perform the rhythms with body percussion (clap, pat, stomp), instruments or found sounds.

To introduce this song, use it as a listening example. Tell the students that they are going to listen to a song about an imaginary creature called a spaceworm. Ask them to learn three things about spaceworms from listening to the words of the song. Make a list of all the things that the students learned about spaceworms on the board. Teach the chorus by rote. Listen to the song again, singing along with the chorus.

Discuss the mood of the song. Ask the children what the music makes them think of. Ask them how it makes them feel.

Have the students sing and move to the music in a way that they imagine spaceworms might move. When you listen to the song, ask the students what happens to the music at the end. (It gets quieter and quieter.) If you are performing this song, you could dress the students in black with different shaped spots pinned on them and use black lights. You could have the students dressed in black and hold flashlights. You could buy glow rings at a dollar store and have them wear glow rings for a performance.

Sing the song "Spaceworms

Options:
1. Create your own movements for the song.
2. Add sound effects that match what you hear in the music.

Read the poem to the children.
Discuss which words in the poem are important. Choose instruments to play sound effects for those words.
For example, on “zoom” play a guiro, a ratchet or a cymbal.
On “moon” and “soon” play a triangle.

Say the poem with instruments.

Teach the song first as an action song.

Five green men in a silver spaceship – Show 5 fingers.
Flew ‘round the moon one day. – Make a fist with the left hand to be the “moon.” Circle the 5 fingers around the fist.
They looked all around. – Look out with hand shading eyes.
Didn’t like what they found, – Shake head "no".
So one of them flew away. – Put hand behind your back and take away 1 finger.

When the students have learned the actions and know the song well, act it out with the students. Form a circle. Choose two students to be the moon. They join hands in the middle of the circle. Choose five students to be the green men. They walk in a circle around the “moon.” Sing the song. All the students watching from the circle will do the actions. The “moon” stays in place while the five green men walk around the moon. This time when you sing the last phrase, substitute a student’s name for the word “one” when you sing “so one of them flew away.” For example, “so Matthew flew away.” Stop and count how many students are left. Resume the game.

This game and actions were contributed by Josee Quesnel-Moffat from Sherwood Park, Alberta.

Sing the song. Try the actions listed below:

• Five green men in a silver spaceship – Show 5 fingers.
• Flew ‘round the moon one day. – Make a fist with the left hand to be the “moon.” Circle the 5 fingers around the fist.
• They looked all around. – Look out with hand shading eyes.
• Didn’t like what they found, – Shake head "no".
• So one of them flew away. – Put hand behind your back and take away 1 finger.

Repeat with 4, 3, 2, and 1 finger.

This could be dramatized by the students. Act out the song - fun!

To help students grasp the counting in the "Five Green Men" song, give each student the manipulatives. A color and a black and white version are given.

Cut out the five men.

When one of the five men flies away in the song, turn that card over (or fly him behind your back).

Sing or say the poem.

Then count and tell how many bubble gum are in the dish.