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Term One Lesson Five: Body Parts
Downloadable Songs
Let’s Make a Circle
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Songs to Source
Shake Your Sillies Out The Walking Song
Props Required
Music player, music speaker, sparkly magic bag, running girl laminate 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: 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 the picture of a girl running. Ask the children the following questions.
a) “What is the little girl doing in this picture?”
b) “What parts of her body is she using to help her run?”
c) “What does it sound like when we run?” Everyone makes a running sound at the
same time. There will likely be a variety of ideas.
d) Lead the children in making the sound of running. You can use ideas from the
children that you observed during point c.
e) Ask a volunteer to name a body part and tell everyone what it’s used for (e.g. ears
help us to hear/knees help us to bend). You act out using the named body part (e.g. listening with ears/bending with knees) and the children copy you. Repeat using ideas from three more volunteers.
* Running time approx. 2 mins 30 secs.
5. Action song or poem: ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ (traditional) Sing the song acapella and perform the actions as indicated. Make sure to sing slowly enough for the children to keep up with the movements.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, And eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Everyone says “One, two, three abracadabra” to make their magic remote controls appear. Sing the song again but press pause at the end of each line. Everyone freezes. Try pulling a funny face. Press play and continue with the next line.
Everyone takes out their remote controls and presses slow motion. Perform the song slowly. Everyone takes out their remote controls again and presses fast forward. Perform the song quickly.
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