Give half the class sticks and half drums. (substitute as needed)

You could also have students click sticks when sticks are shown, then drum on the floor when the drum is shown.

Read and Discuss the Music Room Rules
Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.

Watch the video. Say the vegetable rhythms and clap right after the teacher.
You'll say the rhythms with the students on the recording.

Listen to one verse of the song. Teach that verse by rote. On the board, write the words carrots, dinner, spaghetti, __________, dinner. As you sing verses 2-7, point to the food that is eaten in that verse. Ask the class for suggestions of what to eat in verse 5.

Make up actions for the "Eat! Eat! Yum! Yum!" part of the song

Create your own vegetable rhythms!

The pdf with vegetable cards is in the resources of this lesson. Copy it to cardstock and cut out the cards. (or have students cut them out). Give each student or groups of students a set of cards and let them create their own word rhythms. Choose instruments to play your rhythms. You could label one sound on a beat or two sounds on a beat using your preferred counting system. (ta, ti-ti, du du-day, etc)

Have students compose fruit or vegetable patterns. There is an interactive and a printable manipulative in the song activities to have students create a composition with carrot and corn. Create this composition in call and response form. Have the students create their patterns and decide how to perform them with body percussion or instruments.

Have a student say and perform a 4 beat pattern and have the class echo them. If students are seated in a circle, go around the circle giving everyone a chance to perform their pattern.

Listen to the one verse.

Then play the video again and sing along!

Using the worksheet, or if you want to save paper and ink, use any paper you have, create a new verse, and then draw a picture of what is happening in your verse!

Teach the song by rote. Since this is an echo song - sing a phrase and have the students echo. If you don’t feel comfortable singing for your students, play a phrase on the video and have your students echo.

Choose one student to be Charlie. Charlie is the leader of the singing. While singing,Charlie walks around the outside of the circle. The class echoes, singing the part in the brackets. At the end of the song, Charlie touches a students that they have gone past. The student that is touched leaves the circle and tries to tag (not tackle!) Charlie before Charlie gets to the hole in the circle.

An interesting variation of this game is to have the solo singer make up new verses of what Charlie caught. ex: Charlie caught a cold; Charlie caught the kitchen.

Optional: Complete the worksheet All About Me from Supporting Resources.

Listen to the video and sing the echoes!