Make your own verse cards with birds, fish, ducks and flowers.

Color and cut out the cards.

If you don't have a printer, fold a piece of paper into 4, and draw and color your own birds, fish, ducks and flowers.

Listen to the song "Listen to the Water" and put your picture cards in order as you sing!

Play the video again and sing along.

This song should be familiar to most students. Sing the song and play the game.

Form a single circle with hands joined. One student, the “farmer” is in the center. The students circle around the farmer. Verse two, the farmer chooses a wife to join him in the center of the circle. The game is continued until the last verse when all but the cheese gather around the cheese and clap hands as they sing.

Denise Tips: I find the choosing can be a problem with some classes. As an alternative to having the student make a choice, you can have the chooser close their eyes and point. The rest of the class circles around the pointing finger and whoever is in front of the finger at the end of the song is the one “chosen.” If you play the game twice and have a few students who haven’t been chosen, invite them all to be the “cheese.”

Another alternative to choosing would be to make picture-word cards with the characters pictured on them. Give one card to nine students. Then, when the farmer calls in the wife, the student with the “wife” picture on it would come in. This helps them to recognize the words as well as eliminating any student being left out of the game.

Move the way the video tells you to move.

Play it again. Do you remember all the ways to move to the instruments?

Give out instruments and play along.

If you have them, give one group woods, one group metals and one group drums.

If switching instruments is possible, try to give students turns to play all three kinds of instruments.

If you have them, give one group woods, one group metals and one group drums.

If switching instruments is possible, try to give students turns to play all three kinds of instruments.

In this song, the woods, metals and drums play in turn.