When Grandpa Comes

For Fathers Day this year we're doing two short songs - Daddy's Homecoming and When Grandpa Comes. All of the kids know Daddy's Homecoming, so I'm just going to go over it with them, and not specifically teach it to them. But for When Grandpa Comes I don't think many of them know it.

I'm going to write all of the words on the board, and then I've gone through the song and (using excel) counted the words which are duplicated, and how many each of them are used. I've printed out a list of all the words with how often they each occur.

I'll first go through the words, and sing it for them, and get everyone to sing it together. And then the kids who sing the best will get to come and start rubbing off words. But we'll start with the words that come up most often, and then they'll rub off all of the "Grandpa"'s and "comes"'s etc. I've sorted the list according to how often the words come up, so we can easily see which ones are 3, 2 or 1. For each time we sing it through I'll probably choose two children to come and rub off 2 different words. So for the first time we'll actually lose 6 words (3x2) but later on it will just be 2 coming off at a time.

For the juniors the words are simple enough that those who can't read will be able to pick up the words by watching me and from the repitition - so I'll teach it pretty much the same for both juniors and seniors.