Summary
This video segment from Between the Lions features Theo and Cleo singing a song and dancing the Cha Cha to demonstrate the "ch" sound. They perform in the main reading room of the library and sing about how some lions do other activities to cheer up, but they choose to cha, cha, cha. Three monkeys do backup singing.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
"We Choose to Cha Cha Cha (ch)" is all about listening for the sounds inside words — rhyming, blending, or breaking words into parts (focus: ch).
- What sounds, rhymes, or word parts did you hear?
- How were the sounds put together or pulled apart?
- Can you make another word that plays with those same sounds?
Quick work-a-long
Practice: sound, rhyme, word part.
Try it: Pick a short word, say each sound slowly, then blend it back together — and think of one word that rhymes with it.