Lunch

Here's an easy, pleasin' song about one of everyone's favorite topics - lunch! Let your youngest students sing along, move along, and get those wiggles out before it's time to head to the lunchroom.

The ongoing rhythm pattern in this lively bluegrass song emulates a train, complete with whistles and clanging bells. Let your kids add their own spoken "Chugga chugga... Chew chew!" effects as ours did on the CD. We have marked good places for this on the music, but you can add them however and wherever you like.

This is also a great movement song for primary students. Invite them to play "follow the leader" in line, just like the cars of a train follow the locomotive. Have them shuffle their feet and move like they think a train might. They could involve their arms, too, by moving them back and forth like the wheels, but not too fast. Pick a student leader or use an adult to start. Let students "blow" the train whistle or "hit" the train bell when they hear it in the song.

Learning to line up like a train is also good practice for other situations, like going to the lunchroom or wherever else they are going as a group.

As an extension of this topic, you can discuss food choices for lunch. What would be healthy? You could also bring up the subject of lunchroom etiquette. What are the rules in your school?