Pumpkin Patch!

Pumpkin patch, pumpkin patch
ti-ti         ta         ti-ti      ta

Looking for a pumpkin in my pumpkin patch.
ti-ka     ti-ka       ti-ka   ti-ka    ti-ti         ta

Here one is, nice and fat
ti    ti    ta      ti-ti      ta

Turn into a jack-o-lantern, just like that!
ti-ka     ti-ka   ti-ka   ti-ka    ti-   ti     ta



Pumpkin Patch is a song primary students got to learn today. What fun! We discussed the difference between a pumpkin, and a jack-o-lantern. Students showed me their best jack-o-lantern faces (scary? funny? sad? happy? silly?).

We then played the game. All students curl up into little balls, as pumpkins. I sang the song, and walked throughout the "pumpkin patch". At the end of the song, I tapped one student's shoulder on the words "just like that". They jumped up and showed me their best "jack-o-lantern face". The two of us then continue on playing the game, and tapping shoulders, until all students are jack-o-lanterns.

The students really enjoyed this game, and it was incredibly cute to see their different faces.

You could also use this song to each "tika-tika" with grades two and three.


~Mrs. Caya