Language focus: Getting dressed. "Put on your shoes/pants/jacket/hat."

Classroom benefits: This song teaches some really simple, useful language that parents and teachers can use with children right away. It has lots of repetition and fun sound effects for kids to gesture getting dressed to. This is a nice song to play at the end of class before getting ready to go home.

Lyrics and actions:
Put on your shoes, your shoes, your shoes. (Gesture putting on your shoes.)
Put on your shoes, your shoes, your shoes.
Put on your shoes.
Let's go outside. (Point outside the window.)
Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up! (Make a "come on...let's go" gesture and then everybody runs around the room in a circle.)

Put on your pants, your pants, your pants. (Gesture putting on your pants.)
[SOUNDS: three sounds--two for gesturing putting feet in each leg of the pants, then a funny sound to indicate pulling up your pants.]
Put on your pants, your pants, your pants.
Put on your pants.
Let's go outside.
Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your jacket, your jacket, your jacket. (Gesture pulling a jacket over your shoulders as if it were cold.)
[SOUNDS: three sounds-two for gesturing putting arms in the sleeves of the jacket, and a zipping sound to zip up your jacket.]
Put on your jacket, your jacket, your jacket .
Put on your jacket.
Let's go outside.
Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your hat, your hat, your hat. (Gesture putting on your hat.)
[SOUNDS: a whistle sound - pretend to hold a hat high above your head - followed by a funny gong sound - pull the hat down hard on your head.]
Put on your hat, your hat, your hat.
Put on your hat.
Let's go outside.
Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your shoes. (Gesture putting on your shoes.)
Your pants. (Gesture putting on your pants.)
Your jacket. (Gesture putting on your jacket.)
And your hat. (Gesture putting on your hat.)
Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!



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