I Can Be Helpful: Day Four

Chores

Book:

The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores

Songs:

It's Time To Cleanup
(Tune: "Frere Jacques")
Are you helping,
are you helping
Pick up toys, Pick up toys
Let us all be helpers,
Let us all be helpers.
Girls and boys, girls and boys.

IT’S TIME TO CLEAN-UP
Tune: “The Farmer In The Dell”

It’s time to clean up now.
It’s time to clean up now.
Heigh-ho, just watch us go.
It’s time to clean up now. We’ll put our things away.
Ready for another day.
Heigh-ho, just watch us go.
We’ll put our things away.

Activities:

Farm Chores

Show a picture of a farm and a farmer. Talk about some of the things that need to be done everyday in order to take care of the farm and provide food for us to eat. Teach children to do this finger play:

Five little farmers woke up with the sun.
(hold up hand)
It was early morning and the chores must be done.
The first little farmer went out to milk the cow.
(hold up thumb)
The second little farmer thought he'd better plow.
(hold up index finger)
The third little farmer cultivated weeds.
(hold up middle finger)
The fourth little farmer planted more seed.
(hold up fourth finger)
The fifth little farmer drove his tractor round.
(hold up last finger)
Five little farmers, the best that can be found.
(hold up hand)

Chores
Even small children can understand the importance and need for work and helping out around the house. Spend some time cleaning and ask the children to join you. Have small children help you put the laundry into the machines, put folded clothes into their drawers, put the pillows on the bed, pick up their toys, dust, or other age-appropriate chores.

Have available for the children: dust mops, rags, washcloths, water, soapy water, feather duster, brooms. Make this a fun activity by singing as you go....

This Is The Way We Clean
(tune: "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush""

This is the way we clean our room,
Clean our room, clean our room,
This is the way we clean our room,
Until the job is done!

This is the way we sweep our floors, make the bed, dust the shelf....

Chore Chart: Talk to children about chores/jobs that they are expected to do each day. Make a customized chore chart. You can use this site or make one of your own. Check off when each job is completed and consider some type of reward attached to hard work. (We give out coins at the end of the day for each chore.)