Rhyming Words, Motor Skills, and Image Builders using the song ‘I’ve Got New Shoes’

This song is about the joy and excitement of getting or having a new pair of shoes. 

I’ve Got New Shoes invites running, dancing, skipping, and singing in the CHORUS. The LYRICS suggest ACTION WORDS (VERBS) for teachers and students to do.

Extended learning might include listing all the kinds of shoes that students have heard of. Are there any shoes mentioned in the song that they aren’t familiar with?

Introduce the word COLUMN. Make two columns: one with shoes they know and the other column with shoes they aren’t familiar with.

Provide magazines, newspapers, and ads to cut out pictures of different kinds of shoes and glue them to a picture of a giant shoe in the room or paste them on their own piece of paper to take home.

There are lots of RHYMING words at the end of each PHRASE. Listen for the SOUND EFFECTS.

Clap in different patterns to the STEADY BEAT throughout the song.

Workbook Exercises:

• ‘I’ve Got New Shoes’ Coloring Page – Color the pictures of nine different types of shoes.

• Can You Find the Hidden Shoes? – Can you find all ten shoes hidden in the picture? Color each shoe as you find it. When you find all ten, then color the rest of the picture.

• Which Item is NOT Like the Others? – Read the four items on each line. Three of them have something in common. Circle the one that doesn’t have something in common with the others. (Answer key is provided.)

• How Many Different Styles of Shoes Can You Name? – Read the instructions to number and list as many different styles and types of shoes as you can think of.

• Shoes, Shoes, Shoes – Cut out all the pictures. Find the shoes that match each other and pair them up. Paste or glue each pair of shoes next to each other on another piece of paper.

It’s FUN for classroom teachers, music educators, homeschoolers and students!

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Grade Level:  Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd