Brush Your Teeth: Telling Time
Sing the song Brush Your Teeth and set times on their individual manipulative clocks, showing “quarter to,” ”quarter past, “ and “half past.”
Resources
- Recording of Brush Your Teeth. This is a complete recording with clocks shown at the beginning of each verse.
- Brush Your Teeth performed by Raffi in concert, in which he plays with the song a bit. Raffi has recorded this song on his CDs.
- An excellent recording with Little Richard, suitable for classroom use or performance, is in the Silver Burdett/Scott Foresman music text called Making Music (2005), grade 1, CD 9. Grade 1 Teachers Edition p. 284.
- If you are sufficiently confident with this song from the music notation only, the activity can be done without any recordings, although a high quality the recorded accompaniment can contribute to the effectiveness of the lesson.
Fine Art Standards
SINGING: Sing in a natural voice free from strain. Use the body to perform a rhythm to accompany a melody.
Integrated Standards
MATH: MEASUREMENT AND DATA: Write and tell time, estimation of time intervals.
Objectives
Students will sing Brush Your Teeth, perform the brushing rhythm, and relate the song to showing time on their individual manipulative clocks.