All Your Own Teeth- the song

So for my first week of field placement I need to plan a book experience for the children in my play room. I chose the book "All Your Own Teeth" by Adrienne Geoghegan, because it fits all the criteria for a quality picture book given to me by the University- and I think the story is kind of cute.

Anyways, I need two extensions for every book I read to the children in order for it to be considered an "experience". Since this is my first week and I literally only have the weekend to plan I decided to do things this week that don't require a lot of "stuff". So, one of my extensions I decided would be a song. Unfortunately, I couldn't really find any good songs to teach the kids that in any way fit with the book. A lot of songs deal with monkeys and zebras, none of which are in this book- so singing about them would be kind of inane don't you think?

Anyways, I set off to find a song for each individual animal...which didn't work either. I was having difficulty finding anything for the giraffe. However, I eventually came across this website and it had a cute song about the giraffe's neck. After singing it a few times I decided I could probably make it work for all the animals in the book and set off to create verses for each animal. You will probably want to watch the song on the website first to get the tune. This is what I ended up with:

An elephant has a really long nose
much much longer than mine
He drinks lots of water, and he lives where it's hotter
but I think he has a jolly good time

A cheetah runs really really fast
much much faster than me
He eats gazelles that aren't quite well
and I think he has a jolly good time

a giraffe has a really long neck
much much longer than mine
he eats green leaves
but not green peas
and I think has a jolly good time

A hippo has really big feet
much much bigger than mine
he rolls in the mud
and thinks he's a stud
and I think he has a jolly good time

A crocodile has a very big smile
much much bigger than mine
He licks his chops
and tries not to slop
and they're all having a jolly good time.

Kinda cute right? I'll report back on how it goes over with the kids. Credit for the tune and the giraffe verse go to Boowa and Kwala.