5 Day Jack & Jill Plan

Day 1: 

• Read Jack & Jill book to class (use reproducible book-see resources section below, enlarge, copy on cardstock, color, laminate, and bind to make your own book)

• Re-tell the rhyme using Jack and Jill flannel board (see resources below)

• Sing Jack & Jill song (select one from music resources below to sing all week) Show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song. 

Day 2: 

• Read Jack & Jill book to class.

• Introduce Jack & Jill pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing Jack & Jill song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 3:

• Read Jack & Jill book to class.

• Jack & Jill pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books.  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme.

• Sing Jack & Jill song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 4:

• Read Jack & Jill book to class

• Jack & Jill pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing Jack & Jill song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 5:

• Read Jack & Jill book to class

• Jack & Jill pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing Jack & Jill song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

• Act out rhyme with entire class.

Jack and Jill sequence

Materials: Jack and Jill sequencing picture (see resource books section below), construction paper, crayons, scissors, glue.

The Best of the Mailbox Nursery Rhymes book has good sequencing pictures to reproduce for this rhyme.

Using 3 or 4 scene sequence pictures is a great way to check for understanding.  Have your students color the scenes, cut apart, and glue in the correct order on a piece of construction paper. 

*TIP:  4 year olds may have difficulty sequencing 4 pictures until later in the school year, I try to stick with only 3 scene sequencing activities when working with 4 year olds. 

Jack and Jill picture

Materials: blue construction paper, green construction paper, crayons, scissors, glue, picture of a well, words to rhyme typed out. 

Act out the Rhyme

Materials:  pail or bucket, large picture of a well.

Select two students to be "Jack" and "Jill", give them a pail to hold and have them pretend to to walk up a hill to "fetch a pail of water".  As the children are acting out the rhyme have the whole class say the rhyme out loud with you.  Continue acting out the rhyme until all students have had a turn to be one of the characters in the rhyme. 

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