I feel like a rainbow rain . Repeat the sequence with the words I feel like a sunshine day to the verse in which the children circle. Encourage the children to begin alone and then to add a partner. After the children achieve a comfort level with these stages, increase the circle size to four and then to eight. This experience is based on the familiar folk tune, Paw Paw Patch.
Procedures Sing the song while sitting in a circle.
As you sing the second verse, She s picking up the pumpkins, putting them in the basket Way down yonder in the pumpkin patch, that child goes to the part of the room designated the pumpkin patch to pick up imaginary pumpkins one by one. Have the children follow the song map on page 24 as they sing. Involve the children in new places that they may visit to get pumpkins, and ask them to draw related pictures constructing their own song maps.