Spaceship chant - Chant

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3rd Grade
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Learning Names Through Chanting

Spaceships!

Chanting just means speaking rhythmically. Here's a chanting game that will help a new group of children - and you - to learn everyone's name. Children are learning new words every day and soon understand what chanting is if you ask them to join in with their 'chanting voice'. Line the children up, having already put out hula hoops, one per child.

Start by leading the first few children to a hoop as you chant their names in the rhyme. Once the children understand what to do, you can clap in time too. All the children will eventually stand or sit one per hoop.

To put the hoops away, reverse the game and chant, 'Sophie bring your spaceship' (line 1) and 'Harry bring your spaceship' (line 3), and so on.

  • Sophie go to your spaceship
  • We're going to chant, and say a rhyme
  • Harry go to your spaceship
  • We're going to chant and clap in time