Language focus: Opposites (Open/Shut followed by a karaoke track for adding more opposites.)

Classroom benefits: Singing Open Shut Them is a wonderful way to introduce and review opposites. The Classroom Version allows teachers, parents, and children to add their own opposites!


Lyrics and actions:

Open shut them, open shut them. (Open and shut your hands.)
Give a little clap, clap, clap. (Clap.)
Open shut them, open shut them. (Open and shut your hands.)
Put them in your lap, lap, lap. (Pat your legs.)

After the initial verse, there are 5 music only verses. Use these verses to introduce and review new opposites! Some possibilities that are very gesture-friendly would be:

Hot and cold.
Near and far.
Up and down.
In and out.
Back and forward.
Left and right.
Bright and dark.
Long and short.
Front and back.
Over and under.
Yummy and yucky.
Good and bad.
Etc.

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