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Texas Reading Club Manual 105
Crafts
Paper Plate Pizza
Materials
White paper plates
Red and black self-adhesive dots
White paper
Glue sticks
Directions
Give each child a paper plate, some red and black colored dots, strips of white paper, and a glue
stick. Glue white strips of paper to the paper plate for the cheese, and stick on colored dots for
pepperoni and black olives.
Games and Activities
A la vibora
The Sea Serpent
(Translated and adapted by Alexandra Corona. This is a traditional “London Bridge” type of
game. Two children make a bridge with their hands and the other children hold hands and walk
around and under the bridge. The last time everyone recites, “Tras, tras, tras…,” the two
children making the bridge “lock up” the child who is passing under the bridge and rock him or
her back and forth inside the bridge.)
A la víbora, víbora, víbora,
De la mar, de la mar
Por aquí pueden pasar
Los de adelante corren mucho
Y los de atrás se quedarán
Tras, tras, tras.
Una Mexicana
Que fruta vendía
Ciruela, chabacano
Melón o sandía.
Verbena, verbena,
Jardín de matatena
Campanita de oro
Déjame pasar
Con todos mis hijos
Menos el de atrás, tras, tras.
The sea serpent
From the sea, from the sea
Through here they can pass
And the ones in front run so fast
And the ones behind will
Stay last, last, last.
A Mexican lady
Who sold fruit
Plums, apricots,
Melon or watermelons,
Carnival, carnival
Garden of rock
Golden bell
Let me go through
With all my children
Except the last, last, last.