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Term Three Lesson Eleven: Animals that Hatch from Eggs
Downloadable Songs
Let’s Make a Circle Little Eggs
Songs to Source
Shake Your Sillies Out
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Props Required
Music player, music speaker, sparkly magic bag, egg laminate (or boiled egg from home) and magic sparkles
Lesson Plan
1. Warm-up: ‘Shake Your Sillies Out’ performed by The Wiggles
See weekly drama activity break down for video and instructions. Make sure to use lots of energy!
* Running time approx. 1 min 45 secs.
2. Focus activity: Name Game
See weekly drama activity break down for instructions.
* Running time approx. 3 mins (‘Let’s make a Circle’ should take a MAXIMUM of 30 seconds).
3. Travel to Storyland
See weekly drama activity break down for instructions.
* Running time approx. 4 mins (‘Let’s make a Circle’ should take a MAXIMUM of 30 seconds).
4. Introduce the theme
“Let’s take a look in the sparkly magic bag and see what clue there is for today’s story.” Take out egg laminate (or hard-boiled egg brought from home). Ask the children the following questions.
a) “What is this?”
b) Ask a volunteer to suggest an animal that hatches from an egg (e.g. bird,
dinosaur, fish, snake, duck, goose, turtle, frog, lizard, crocodile, chicken etc.). You act out being the animal (using upper body) and the children copy you. Repeat using ideas from three more volunteers.
c) “And what sound does an egg make when it hatches?” Listen to all the suggestions.
d) “Let’s all hatch from an egg and make the sound together.” Use a sound from the children’s suggestions.
* Running time approx. 2 mins 30 secs.
5. Action song or poem: ‘Little Eggs’ written by Lucy Milan Davis
The children curl up as eggs on the floor, then chant the rhyme as they tap the pulse on the floor.
All:
Little eggs, little eggs, What shall we be? Little eggs, little eggs, Let’s hatch and see!
Teacher:
Let’s all be chickens!
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