Well, not exactly rock stars but who knows? Kids love to sing, especially a few favorite songs that adults get to hear over and over and over. But songs and singing help develop many different readiness for kindergarten areas. The obvious one is language and more than just vocabulary. All that repetition is a way to practice the right order for words. Songs have patterns which prewire the brain for all kinds of other patterns, especially in math, and s-t-r-e-t-c-h kids’ memory for things that they hear. There are many songs about pumpkins but the easiest ones use tunes from old favorites that are already familiar.
Tune: Where is thumbkin? (for both boys and girls)
Where is pumpkin? Where is pumpkin? Here I am. Here I am.
How are you today, Sir? Very well, I thank you.
Roll away. Roll away. (or Sit right here. Sit right here.)
Where is pumpkin? Where is pumpkin? Here I am. Here I am.
How are you today, Ma’am? Very well, I thank you.
Roll away. Roll away. (or Sit right here. Sit right here.)
Tune: Here we go ’round the Mulberry Bush
Pumpkins are orange with a green stem, with a green stem, with a green stem.
Pumpkins are orange with a green stem. They’re ready in the fall.
Adapt the words for your family activities.
Here we go to the Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin Patch.
Here we go to the Pumpkin Patch. We’ll bring one home.
For a song that even exercises grown-up brains and tongues try: 1 little, 2 little, 3 little pumpkins…10 little pu-umpkins, and after singing one round sing: 1 medium, 2 medium, 3 medium pumpkins, etc. It’s impossible to get all the way through and very silly. Having fun learning is the best kindergarten readiness of all! Would you agree?