Vocabulary Words
- Introduce the words peeping and stinging.
Discussion Questions
- Can you see the wind? How does the wind blow different things differently? How does a flag blow in the wind? How do leaves of grass blow in the wind?
Physical
- Children can pretend to be blown about by the wind.
- Play a March wind game. Have the children form a circle and pretend they are trees. Each child can be a different kind of tree. Select one child to be the wind. The child who is the wind can rush through the trees, making a wind sound. When teacher gives a signal, the wind stops and trades places with a tree. The tree child then becomes the wind.
Cognitive
- Use this song to encourage children to use their senses to see, hear, and smell the changes in nature that occur in the spring. Have the children dramatize the words “shh,” “look,” “ooh,” and “all.”
- Take a nature walk with the class, observing the various changes that happen in the spring. See snow melting, flowers peeping, and trees beginning to awake from their winter sleep. Listen to the wind whistling and to the birds singing. Take along a magnifying glass for closer looks.
- Find pictures of flowers peeping, birds singing, noses stinging, snow melting, and trees breathing as they begin to blossom. Mount the pictures on oak tags. Mix the pictures up and see if the child can put them in the same order as they appear in the song. Have the children act out the song, using the pictures for a guide.
- Read the poem Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti.
