Nancy Stewart

Vocabulary: Some of the vegetable names will be new to children, and you can include others as well.

Print motivation: G iving a clue before revealing each vegetable turns this into a game.

Narrative skills: You can stop and talk about each vegetable before going on to the next. Ask about what they like to eat, if they go to the market, etc.

Phonological Awareness : The hand motions follow the syllables as you sing, letting children feel the smaller sounds with their bodies. PROPS : Pictures of vegetables. In addition to the five vegetables in the song, there are four others you can use. Print out nine copies of the “Seed” page, use them to back each of the vegetable pictures ( I have done mine on different colored paper just for fun). This brings early literacy into the song. You can glue or laminate each, or slip them into page protectors.

INSTRUCTIONS : At the end of each verse, hold up a picture and ask children to name the fruit or vegetable. With children three and older, you can give a hint and ask them to guess.

NOTE : On the CD or MP3 download, all three verses are done together, but you can pick one verse to do at a time so children aren’t confused.

(one hand makes loose fist to form a pot, other hand moves down through pot in 3 movements, in
time with the music)
Watch it grow,
hand comes back up through "pot" in 3 moves with the music)
Soon we will have a vegetable

Other versions for fruit or fruit and vegetables:

Watch it root
Soon we will have a piece of fruit

Watch it sprout,
Let's all try to figure it out (is it a fruit, or a vegetable?)

carrots

potato

broccoli

corn

lettuce

pepper

cabbage

onion

beans