SHOE TYING JOURNEY

Isn't it amazing that many young children know how to navigate the web, but they do not know how to tie their shoes.  Allison Caspers of Oak Grove Lutheran gets a suitcase and puts an old shoe init along with one of the poem below. Each night a child gets to take home the suitcase and practice tying theshoe.  When they have completedtheir “Shoe Tying Journey” they receive a PASSPORT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT forlearning to tie their shoes.

1-2-3-4 – TyingShoes

Let’s get ready totie your shoes. 

Over andunder.  Now, what to do?   (Pull strings tight.)

1. Make a loopthat looks like a tree.  (Make aloop with right string.)

2. The otherstring is a rabbit you see.  (Holdup left string.)

3.The rabbit goes around and in a hole. (Take left string around loop and stick

in the hole.)

4.  Pull the loops tight and there is yourbow!  (Take both loops and pull.)

Tying ShoesVersion 2

Take the 2 strings                               (Makeloops with each string.)

And make two bunnyears.

Over and under

And a knot willappear.                           (Tieloops in a knot.)

Pull the earstight

And what do youknow?                          (Pullloops.)

You’ve tied yourshoes

And there is yourbow!