Friday, November 16, 2012

Singing game for smart kids.


Ride, Sally Ride

(Circle game, standing, holding hands.  The circle moves to the right.
 IT jams in the center, uses hand to portray "shooting thru the atmosphere and home in a glide.")

Ride, Sally Ride!   Ride, Sally Ride!       535-- 535--
   Shooting thru the atmosphere, and home in a glide!  5353535--
(Stop, hold the circle taut.)

Ride, Sally Ride!   Ride, Sally Ride!        535-- 535--
   Shooting thru the atmosphere, and home in a glide!    
  (On the second "glide," IT glides toward someone in the circle, breaks thru their arms,  and the circle explodes outward.)

IT taps one of the two people whose arms IT went between, who becomes the new IT, who runs to the center shouting:
      "10 (pause), 9(pause), 8 (pause), 7 (pause), 6…"

The circle reforms around the new IT, continuing:
        "...5, 4, 3, 2, 1,  Liftoff! Give us a law!" 

The new IT shouts "Isaac Newton's first (or second or third) law!"
 The group chants the appropriate law, pumping hands :

(1) An object at rest wants to stay at rest.  (ta ta titi ta)
          An object in motion will stay in motion.     (ta ta titi ta)
or
(2) Force equals mass times acceleration.     (ta ta titi ta)
           Force equals mass times acceleration.      (ta ta titi ta)
or
(3) Action/reaction! action/reaction!     (ta ta ta ta)
          Equal and opposite, action/reaction.    (ta ta ta ta)
Then the circle moves to the right and the game starts again.


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