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Verses for the Lower Grades / 3
Tooth Fairy Game (To be acted out by children whenever a classmate has lost a tooth; insert the child's name and correct pronouns)
This night it is a special night: Lithe fairies dance upon the roof; All the prancers must alight, For LUKAS has now lost a tooth!
The Fairy Queen gives her commands: Twelve bright fairies must join hands And together in the circle stand To guard Lukas while he sleeps.
The Tooth Fairy into the circle now leaps, And the hidden tooth she takes; Oh, she has so far to go, Before sleepyhead Lukas awakes.
Three times around the world she flies, O'er valleys deep and mountains high; She skirts the storm clouds thick with thunder, And wings o'er waves all wild with wonder.
Deep within their earthly home Finally she finds the gnomes, Who upon the tooth must work, And never once their duty shirk.
Some are hammering, hammering, hammering, While some the bellows blow; Others must sweat at the sweltering forge, And then cry out, "Heigh-ho!"
The tooth has been turned into a crystal bright, A glittering, glowing gem; The Tooth Fairy takes the gnomes' gleaming gift And bows to all of them. Before the sun's first rays are shown, She returns to Lukas' bed; Places the gem beneath his head, And then--away she's flown! (32 lines = 32 teeth)
Snow King and Spring Princess (To help learn "body geography") (Children stand in a circle, with the Snow King in the center and the Spring Princess outside.) Circle of Children: The Snow King casts a frozen spell On everyone in sight-- He makes them dance about so well, Then turns them into ice!
(The Snow King leads children in movement, as in "Simple Simon")
Snow King: Raise your right hand! Raise your left! Above your head now clap! Place your hands upon your hips! Give your knees a slap! Right foot in and left foot in, Spin about if you please! In and out and in and out and...
(Children rapidly alternate right and left feet in and out of the circle until the Snow King says:) "FREEZE!" (The Spring Princess now enters the circle of frozen children, goes up to a child and asks:)
Spring Princess: Which foot now within the circle rests? Is it the right foot or is it the left?
(To the child who answers correctly the Princess says:)
You are thawed out!
(That child now asks another the same question and the process continues until everyone is thawed out. The children then take hands.)
Children: We are thawed out! Spring has come! Let us dance and Let us run! (They run about in the circle and sing "Spring is Coming.")
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