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140 Reading: The Sport of Champions!
Rhymes and Poetry
“Nursery Chairs” from When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne.
“The Swing”
(From A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Public domain.)
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside –
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown –
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
Audio Recordings
“Brown Girl in the Ring” on Shake it to the One that You Love Best: Play Songs and Lullabies
from Black Musical Traditions by Cheryl Warren Mattox.
“The Grand Old Duke of York” on Where Is Thumbkin? by the Learning Station.
“Somebody Come and Play” on Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music by Sesame Street.
Flannel Boards
“Let’s Play” and “The Game” from Flannelboard Stories for Infants and Toddlers by Ann and
Mary Carlson.
Puppet Shows
“Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” and “I Had a Little Rooster” from 101 Fingerplays,
Stories, and Songs to Use With Finger Puppets by Diane Briggs.
Stories
“The Chase” from Mystery-Fold: Stories to Tell, Draw, and Fold by Valerie Marsh.
“A New Sport” from Storyteller’s Sampler by Valerie Marsh.