This is a poem that the kids act out. It is geared more towards smaller children. Poems work well for working on memorization with children without having to learn a melody on top of the words. They can also be helpful with learning rhythms and recognizing rhymes. Here are the words:
5 Little Christmas Trees standing all alone
Their hearts were sad 'cause they didn't have a home.
Then CHOP went the ax and DOWN went a tree
And off it went with a happy family.
I have a flannel board I use to teach this rhyme. I use five different-looking pine trees and I have an ax I made out of laminated cardstock. Not the sturdiest--someday soon I need to find a toy ax! I have 5 children come up and take turns "chopping down" the Christmas trees. If you're teaching children in the 4+ age range you can have them tap sticks to the rhythm of the poem. You can also point out the rhyming words and have them tap only on the words that rhyme. If you wanted to put this to a melody, this youtube video has a fairly good tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZxfGSqGQ.
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