Here’s a variation of "See You Later, Alligator." Donna Henry’s first grade class at Portsmouth Catholic School came up with a lot of rhymes in “Todaloo. (I really prefer to have the children make their own book and illustrate it.) You can also download a book to go with the song on my website. I use the extra pictures on the cover, “The End,” “Comments and Compliments,” etc. The children all sign their names as “Illustrators,” and then I punch holes and bind with book rings. I let them dedicate their book and then add the school's name as the publisher and the copyright date. I encourage the children to use lots of colors and to fill in the page. Sometimes we do a little research on the internet if they are not familiar with an animal. After singing the song several times I let each child choose an animal and illustrate it for our book. I make two copies of each page since there are 15 lines and usually at least 25 children in a classroom. First, I enlarge the words and put one line on each page. See You Later, Alligator Alternative Version Lyrics. Give a hug, ladybug, See you soon, big baboon, Out the door, dinosaur, Take (good) care, polar bear, Wave goodbye, butterfly. I bet you can come up with more catchy good-bye rhymes, I know my colleagues at the Province of North Holland are champions at rhymes.This chant also makes a great class book that I've made many times through the years. See you later, alligator, After a while, crocodile, Blow a kiss, jellyfish. On to the big adventure across the pond – only 18 more days in the Netherlands.Īs I started this post with that all over the world famous good-bye verse, here it comes, a longer version. I will do my best to come back at this blog as often as I can and post a lot of sense and non-sense and share my adventures with everyone that wants to read them. I am most grateful for having had the opportunity to work with so many great people, thank you for the guidance and the lessons I’ve learned. It lifts my spirit and gives me even more confidence that this big step my family and I are taking will be a step towards a good new life. Thank you for encouraging me and letting me know you trust I will do well in the States. Thank you for the kind words, the speeches, the flowers, the signed card, the booklet from my team with a special and personal written good-bye, the book about The Province of North-Holland in English and for the many e-mails that I got. Thank you for the attention that you’ve put into choosing such an appropriate gift – I am cherishing my new bracelet charms, a moneybag charm and a tulip charm. It was a wonderful moment as they made sure I didn’t leave without a beautiful memory. Well the end of my last day at work is already in the past, I’ve said my goodbyes and my colleagues said their good-byes too. At the same time I found comfort in knowing that some of my colleagues will keep in touch once in while and a very few special colleagues are naturally shifting into being friends, as they say, some doors close and others open. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave and I won’t see many of the people I met at work, ever again most probably. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave my work into other skilled people’s hands. This past Thursday was my last day at work and quite a strange and special day it was. Ha, something new I learned today that might come in very handy later when my daughter will start learning rhymes. Who doesn’t know this ‘good-bye’ verse? I guess the entire planet does and most people, myself included, know exactly this little verse but don’t know that there is more to it, it’s a children poem and song that’s been around for ages and you can actually add to it more rhymes, make up your own.
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