Music bookSongs We All Know · Level 1 · First Songs
Hickory Dickory Dock
- 10 spreads
- About 2 min of song
- English · Español
Hickory, dickory, dock! Every time the big clock strikes, Mimi the mouse has a new move: run down, tap your shoe, tap your knee, touch the floor... all the way up to ten, when it is time to say good night. Count the chimes, copy every move, and look for Butter the cat, who sleeps through it all. The rhyme everyone knows, with nine new verses for counting and moving.
Level 1 · First Songs
Listen, move, and join in with a sound.
The child: Listens, moves, claps or taps, and joins in with a sound, a word or a sign when the song stops for them.
The grown-up: Sings most of it. Pauses before the word that comes back so the child can fill it in, any way they can.
What the levels meanGoals
- Cognitivecounting one to ten, number words, matching a count to chimes
- Motorgross-motor imitation: tap, touch, kick, stretch, stand, clap; up and down
- Regulationwaiting for the chime, a calm last verse
In a session
Count the chimes (tap a drum or a triangle the number of times after "struck"), movement imitation, up and down with the arms ("ran up the clock"), find-it (Butter the cat), fill-in on the number
Session ideas
- Chime count
- Move menu
- Up and down
The full ideas open with the book.