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Spring Lesson ten: Getting Ready for Bed
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Let’s Make a Circle Shake Your Sillies Out Yes We Can
Getting Ready for Bed
Props Required
Music player, music speaker, sparkly magic bag, picture of a boy yawning in bed and magic sparkles
Lesson Plan
1. Warm-up: ‘Shake Your Sillies Out’ performed by The Wiggles
Play the track and perform actions as indicated by the lyrics. Make sure to use lots of energy!
* Running time approx. 1 min 45 secs.
2. Focus activity: ‘Yes We Can’ written by Unknown
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 the picture of a boy yawning in bed. Ask the children the following questions.
a) “What is the little boy doing in this picture?”
b) “What sound do you make when you yawn?” Everyone does a yawning
action and makes the sound.
c) Ask a volunteer to tell everyone something they do to get ready for bed.
Give some suggestions (e.g. have a bath, clean teeth, get into pyjamas, read a story etc.), if necessary. You act out performing the suggested activity (using upper body) and the children copy you. Repeat using suggestions from three more volunteers.
* Running time approx. 2 mins 30 secs.
5. Action song or poem: ‘Getting Ready for Bed’ by Lucy Milan Davis and Tamara Saffir
a) Say the rhyme, performing actions as indicated by the words.
b) Perform the rhyme again, encouraging the children to join in with the
actions.
c) Performtherhymeathirdtime,encouragingthechildrentojoininwiththe
words AND the actions (repeat two lines at a time to help them learn it). d) Lastly, perform the rhyme all together in full (saying the words and
performing the actions).
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