Wonderful Winter Delightful!

Babies

"Rhymne: Pease porridge hot "
Clap in time as you say this rhyme

Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot nine days,
Some like it hot,
And some like it cold,
And some like it in the pot,
Nine days old!

Toddlers

"Rhyme: Bate, Bate, Chocolate"
from Texas State Library and Archives Commission
El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros - a Celebration of Childhood and Bilingual Literacy
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/ninos/songsrhymes.html

Children in Mexico often drink chocolate with breakfast. They stir it with a special utensil called a molinillo which is held between the palms and rotated back and forth. During the chorus of this rhyme, children rub their palms together and pretend to "stir" the chocolate with a molinillo. Children repeat the verse, faster and faster each time.

Bate, bate, chocolate
Tu nariz de cacahuate
Uno, dos, tres, CHO!
Uno, dos, tres, CO!
Uno, dos, tres, LA!
Uno, dos, tres, TE!
Chocolate, chocolate!
Bate, bate, chocolate!
Bate, bate, bate, bate,
Bate, bate,
CHOCOLATE!

Preschoolers

"Rhyme: Five Little Snowmen"

Five little snowmen standing round my door.	Hold up five fingers.
This one melted and then there were four.
Four little snowmen beneath a green pine tree.	Hold up four fingers.
This one melted and then there were three.
Three little snowmen with caps and mittens blue.	Hold up three fingers.
This one melted and then there were two.
Two little snowmen standing in the sun.	Hold up two fingers.
This one melted and then there were one.
One little snowman started to run.	Hold up one fingers.
But he melted away and then there was none.

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