Donkey, Donkey Old and Gray Nursery Rhyme | Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities

Donkey, Donkey Old and Gray Nursery Rhyme
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Alphabet > Letter D > D is for Donkey Animals > Mammals > Desert > Farm > Donkey Colors > Gray Crafts > Holidays and Events > March \| April > Easter Oct. 2nd > World Farm Animals Day Dec. 25th > Christmas > The Nativity \| Palm Sunday Nursery Rhymes >	This nursery rhyme is a fun way to introduce the donkey and related topics in the themes column. Activity > Read and Sing Nursery Rhyme Donkey, Donkey Old and Gray Print, read or sing the nursery rhyme using the color poster. You can use the gray donkey paper puppet to assist with the presentation. Make sure children understand the meaning of all the words. For example, explain that the word morn is a shorter version of the word morning. Activity > Coloring Page Activity > Focus letter D, color gray and rhyming words. * Print and distribute the coloring page. * Explain that the word donkey starts with the D sound. Have children find and underline the uppercase and lower case letter d's in the text. * Read the rhyme again, and help identify the rhyming words. * Encourage child to color the donkey gray and to color the rest of the image. * Discuss what time of the day is this rhyme happening > the morning. What happens in the morning? We wake up. * To reinforce, read the rhyme at least once a day during the week using the finished coloring poster. * Place the poster in a place of honor at child's eye level. Review these donkey literature ideas.	Donkey Nursery Rhyme color poster coloring page * crayons, color pencils or markers Donkey paper bag puppet (gray, brown & B/W) Donkey literature ideas
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Donkey, Donkey Old and Gray Nursery Rhyme Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities

Donkey, Donkey Old and Gray Nursery Rhyme
Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities