🎵 Little Chicks Sing-Along

🧺 Materials

• your voice
• a small blanket or towel (a soft 'nest')
• optional: a toy chick or sock to be the pollito

📋 Instructions (parent)

1. Make a cozy 'nest' on the floor with a blanket and sit inside it together like baby chicks.
2. Sing 'Los pollitos dicen' once slowly so your child hears the whole song.
3. Teach gestures: cup hands to your mouth for 'pío pío', shiver for 'cuando tienen frío', rub your tummy for 'tienen hambre'.
4. Sing it again together, doing the gestures, and let your child be the little chick peeking out of the nest.
5. Sing it a third time, pausing before the last word of each line so your child fills in the word.
6. Take a bow and 'pío pío' goodnight as the chicks tuck into the nest.

➕ Extension ideas

• Sing the song very softly like sleepy chicks, then loudly like hungry chicks, to play with volume.
• Make a paper-plate chick beak and quack along, then add a verse about another farm animal.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

💬 Conversation prompts

• ¿Qué dicen los pollitos cuando tienen hambre?
• ¿Cómo te sientes cuando tienes frío, como el pollito?
• ¿Quién cuida a los pollitos en la canción?
• ¿Puedes cantar la parte que más te gusta?
• ¿Qué otro animalito podemos meter en el nido?

🔑 Vocabulary

• pollito — little chick
• gallina — hen
• hambre — hunger
• frío — cold
• comida — food
• abrigo — warm coat / shelter
• nido — nest
• cantar — to sing