Itsy Bitsy Spider and Monkey Song in Spanish
— In moretprs@y…, “Laurie C.”
Dear Bill,
Here is the version I use with my kids:
Poco a poco
la arañita subió
De repente
la lluvia se cayó
Apareció el sol y
todo se secó
y De nuevo
la arañita subió
I add gestures for Poco a Poco (making a gesture for a little bit) ,
De
repente (hands open suddenly from being in fists) and De nuevo (roll
hands
around each other) to help learn those phrases. The funny thing is
that I
originally put that together years ago when I was teaching a
kindergarten
class and they asked if I could teach them the itsy bitsy monkey.
(I said
the WHat?) They taught me in English and then we did it in
Spanish….it is
adorable!!! Here is how it goes…
Poco a poco
el monito subió ( fists on top of each other, move bottom fist to
become
top fist..”climbing”)
De repente
el coco se cayó ( hold a fist high in the air for the coco, bring it
down
and hit your knee with it)
Apareció mamá (hands on hips…rock or wiggle hips )
y la rodilla le besó (point to knee on la rodilla, kiss fingers
and touch
knee on le beso)
y de nuevo
el monito subió
It is a huge hit with my high schoolers. :o)….gets in some great
verbs in
the preterite and three terrific expressions. For upper level kids
have
them write their own versions…I have sung some very funny ones
over the
years!! Hope this helps…
Laurie Clarcq
still smiling from Philadelphi
lingeric@r…
