Music bookLittleTune Classics · Level 2 · Sing Along
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- 10 spreads
- About 3 min of song
- English · Español
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Mary likes to do things the other way round. Her friends dig down; she piles up. Their seeds are small; hers is big. They drip; she splashes! Then everyone waits while the sun goes up and down, until the shoots grow from very small to very tall and the buds open wide. Sing the rhyme everyone knows, play the opposites on every page, and find the little red ladybug.
Level 2 · Sing Along
Sing the parts that come back.
The child: Sings the chorus and the lines that repeat, answers a call, says their own name in the song.
The grown-up: Leads the verses and hands over the parts that come back. Pause points and the name round fit here.
What the levels meanGoals
- Cognitiveplanting in steps: dig, plant, water, wait, grow, bloom; opposites: down and up, big and small, a little and a lot, up and down, small and tall, quiet and loud, shut and open, slow and fast
- Communicationgarden sounds: bells, drip and splash, hum, cuckoo; the question-and-answer form; filling in "all in a row"
- Motorwhole-body opposites: crouch and stretch, scoop and lift, fists and open hands
In a session
One pair of opposites per spread, shown with the hands or the body; a garden sound per spread; a wait (5); a slow grow (6); a look and find (9)
Session ideas
- The other way round
- Plant a real row
- Step cards
The full ideas open with the book.