5 Day Mary Had a Little Lamb Plan

Day 1: 

• Read Mary Had a Little Lamb 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 the Mary Had a Little Lamb flannel board (see resources below)

• Sing Mary Had a Little Lamb song (Dr Jean) Show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song. 

Day 2: 

• Read Mary Had a Little Lamb book to class.

• Introduce Mary Had a Little Lamb pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing  Mary Had a Little Lamb song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 3:

• Read Mary Had a Little Lamb  book to class.

• Review Mary Had a Little Lamb pocket chart  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme.

• Sing  Mary Had a Little Lamb song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 4:

• Read Mary Had a Little Lamb  book to class.

• Review Mary Had a Little Lamb pocket chart  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme.

• Sing  Mary Had a Little Lamb song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song

Day 5:

• Read Mary Had a Little Lamb  book to class.

• Review Mary Had a Little Lamb pocket chart  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme.

• Sing  Mary Had a Little Lamb song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

• Act out rhyme with entire class.

Mary Had a Little Lamb sequence

Materials: Mary Had a Little Lamb sequencing picture (see resource book section), 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 choose only 3 scene sequencing activities when working with 4 year olds.  Just cover up the 2nd or 3rd picture in the 4 picture sequence reproducibles and then copy.

Act out the Rhyme

Materials:  backpack, lamb headband.

Select one student to be "Mary" and another student to be the "lamb".   The student who is Mary can wear a backpack to show that she is on her way to school, the student who is the lamb can wear the headband.  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. 

To make the headband you will need one sentence strip and two black pieces of paper cut into the shape of sheep ears.  Glue the two pieces of black paper to the sentence strips and staple the two ends together to make a headband.

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