Row Your Boat
During several consecutive storytimes you would choose a song to sing every time. For example, I chose Row Your Boat.
In each storytime we sing the song correctly:
Row, row, row your boat; gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily; life is but a dream.
Then we sing the song again in a silly way, changing the first sound of each word:
Bow, bow, bow, bour boat, bently, bown be bream
Berrily, berrily, berrily, berrily; bife bis but ba bream.
Then we sing it again correctly.
Aside: Singing nonsense songs like this help children hear the smaller sounds in words, in a fun way! Try it with different songs. Being able to change the first sound in a word is part of phonological awareness.
The next time we sing Row Your Boat changing the first sound of each word to a different sound. For example:
Low, low, low lour loat; lently lown le leam
Lerrily, lerrily, lerrily, lerrily; life lis lut la leam.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting