<p>"Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme.</p><p>The song originally described the plague, the Black Death.</p><p>...about 600 years ago. A group of children form a ring.</p><p>Dance in a circle around a person</p><p>The slowest child to do so is faced with a penalty or becomes the "roses" and takes their place in the center of the ring.</p> <p><b style="color: rgb(255, 138, 0);">Game 1: Act it Out</b></p><p>M: We’re little mice. Squeak, squeak. “Here is a little mouse, peeking through a hole, peek to the left, peek to the right.” Oh, look,It’s a bright, sunny day! Let’s go to the garden.</p><p>E: Good idea!</p><p>M: Oh, look, there are roses! Wow, roses. I love them.</p><p>M: Let’s play Ring around the Roses!</p><p>M&E: Ring around the roses, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”</p><p>M: Look, I can jump, jump, jump. Let’s jump around the roses.</p><p>M&E: Jump around the roses, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”</p><p>Tiptoe, tiptoe. Can you tiptoe around the roses?</p><p>E: Yes. </p><p>M: Great! You can do that! Let’s tiptoe around the roses.</p><p>M&E “Tiptoe around the roses, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”</p><p>Look at me, rock, rock, rock. Let’s rock, rock, rock. How about we rock around the roses?</p><p>M&E: Rock around the roses, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”</p><p>M: Watch out! Bzzzzz…I’m a little bee. The little bee is coming. Run to your hole as fast as you can. I’ll sting you!</p><p>M: You know, bees like flying around flowers. You should check if there are any bees around flowers before you get close to them.</p> <p><b style="color: rgb(255, 138, 0);">Game 2 Get Rid of Bugs</b></p><p>M： We are gardeners. We work in a garden and take care of plants/flowers. Look, there are lots of bugs around the roses. Bugs want to eat the leaves/petals. Let’s get rid of those bugs.</p><p>M: Take the spoon and put a bug on your spoon. Like this. Let’s ring around the roses. Don’t drop the bug while you’re ringing around the roses.</p><p>M&E: Ring/jump/tiptoe/rock/dance/fly/march/creep/hop around the roses…</p><p>M: Ok, now, throw it into the dustbin.</p><p>E:OK.</p><p>M: There are still lots of bugs. Let’s keep working.</p><p>M: Done! You are a great gardener. Now, you can water the flowers.</p> <p><b style="color: rgb(255, 138, 0);">Game3：Rose Exploration</b></p><p>M: Honey, look, I bought a bunch of red roses </p><p>from a florist’. Are they gorgeous?</p><p>E: Yes.</p><p>M: See, there are many sharp thorns on the stem. Do you want to touch them?</p><p>E: Yes.</p><p>M: You can touch it with your fingertip. Be careful. Your finger hurts, right? </p><p>E: Yeah.</p><p>M: So we must be careful when we hold a rose. We can use a newspaper to cover these thorns, and then we won’t get hurt.</p><p>M: Can you help me take off the petals? Let’s see what we can find. </p><p>E: Sure.</p><p>M: See, there is a petal road. Let’s drive the car over the petals. Wow! Look! We got purple color out of the petals.</p><p>M: Let’s go to the garden and find more types of flowers. Smash the flower on the paper.</p><p>E: let's go!</p><p><br></p> <p><b style="color: rgb(255, 138, 0);">Game4：The parts of the rose</b></p><p>M: Emma, look at this picture. What flower is it?</p><p>E: it's a rose.</p><p>M: yes. Do you know what are the parts of the rose?</p><p>E:yes. Here is the flower. Here is the bud. Here is the leaf. Here is the fruit. Here is the root. Here is the stem.</p><p><br></p> <p><b style="color: rgb(255, 138, 0);">Game5：The parts of the flower.</b></p> <p><b style="color: rgb(255, 138, 0);">Game 6：Ring around the Carpet</b></p><p>M: Look, Emma. Here are some roses. Let's take off the pollens from the roses. Can you help me?</p><p>E: Yes. i Can help you.</p><p>M:wow, We have a lot of pollens </p><p>Let’s ring around the carpet. And Then Let's get more pollens as fast as we can. If you get more pollens, you are the winner. OK?</p><p>E: OK.</p><p>M&E: Ring around the carpet, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.</p><p>M: Sit down quickly and get as many posies as you can.</p><p>M: Oh, I want more petals. </p><p>E:I want more petals too.</p><p>M: I can get more pollens than you.</p><p>M: You got more poises. So you can take the pocket and scatter the poises.</p><p>M: What can we put in this pocket? How about peanuts/coins? Let’s have a try. We got a pocket full of peanuts/coins. Let’s ring around the carpet again.</p><p>M&E: “Ring around the carpet, a pocket full of peanuts/coins, ashes, ashes, we all sit down.” </p>