This song continues on with just music so you can make up your own silly lyrics.
For example, change it to, "Skidamarink a dink a dink, Skidamarink a dee, I love ME!! or
"Skidamarink a dink a dink, Skidamarink a daa, I love Pizaaaaa!"
Skidamarink is a great performance song! If the setting permits, have the children cut out
lots of tiny pink and red hearts beforehand. Put them into heart-shaped pockets hanging around their necks.
Wear these during the performance. At the end of the song, the children sprinkle the hearts over their parents or
in front of them. (Be sure to have a broom handy!) |
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Hearts Concentration
- Print two color copies of the color hearts worksheet (hearts1.pdf).
- Cut and paste the hearts onto 20 index cards.
- Students form groups of 2-6 students.
- Review the colors of all the hearts.
- Have the students spread the colored heart cards face down on the floor or table in front of them.
- The first student turns over one card and names the color (“It’s a blue heart”), and then turns over a
second card and names the color (“It’s a pink heart.”) If the two cards match, the student says, “Happy Valentine’s Day!”
and keeps the cards. That student gets another turn. If there is no match, the student turns the cards back over and it is
the next player's turn. Continue taking turns until all the cards are gone.
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With large classes, make several sets of cards and have the students play in small groups.
You can also have students pair up and play together. So, if you have 10 students in a class,
have them pair up and make 5 teams.
For students with some basic reading skills, instead of matching colored heart to colored heart,
make 10 colored heart cards (hearts1.pdf), and 10 word cards (hearts3.pdf), and have the students match
the colored hearts to the correct color words. If you would like students to match colored hearts to
the color words but they are not yet proficient enough to read all of the words, you can underline or
trace the words with the correct colored marker. For example, on the card that says “red”, underline
the word “red” with a red marker.
For students with a little higher reading level, you can use the blank hearts worksheet (hearts2.pdf)
and fill in the hearts with different Valentine’s Day vocabulary words (for example, heart, chocolate, cupid,
love, card, February, friend).
This is a very basic activity. Give crayons and one blank hearts worksheet (hearts2.pdf) to each student.
Together, color many different colored hearts. “Let’s color a pink heart.” “Next, let’s color a green heart.”
When you are finished coloring, you can put the worksheets away, or you can have the students cut out all the cards
on the worksheet. Then you can sort the hearts by color, or students can give them to one another as simple Valentine’s Day cards. ^_^
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