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Cover of Hey Diddle Diddle

Music bookLittleTune Classics · Level 3 · Sing It Through

Hey Diddle Diddle

  • 10 spreads
  • About 2 min of song
  • English · Español

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon! And that's just the start: a duck flies, a fox bakes a pie, a bear sings high and a snail zooms by. Silly or real? Sing the rhyme everyone knows, guess the last word, and find the little chalk mouse on every page, until the whole farm falls asleep.

Level 3 · Sing It Through

Longer verses, more to remember.

The child: Sings whole verses, follows a story, keeps counts and sequences, and can learn the tune on the keys.

The grown-up: Shares the singing. Try word mode and the melody view, or the Piano Path lesson for the tune.

What the levels mean

Goals

  • Cognitivesilly or real?: judging what can really happen; predicting the rhyme
  • Communicationsound play: low and high voices, fast and slow, drum echoes, animal sounds
  • Socialturn-taking on the drum, spread 6
  • Regulationfrom silly to calm, spreads 8 to 10

In a session

Silly or real? on every spread (thumbs up or wiggly fingers), fill in the last rhyme word, jump, flap, spin and bow, low and high voice, fast and slow hands, drum echo, counting to three, a yawn and a stretch

Session ideas

  • Silly or real?
  • Guess the rhyme
  • Sound play

The full ideas open with the book.

An activity kit for this book

Downloadable, to print or use on screen. They come with the book.