a sample week's programme

 

Week two: "Billy goats Gruff"

 

Body and movement (gross and fine)

Thematic music/ Dressing the room

Music - Hungarian Dances, Brahms

Dressing room - bridge to climb over (wooden rocker, upside down) and under (table decorated with different textured green/gold/brown materials). Water (blue/green scarves hanging on suspended string); forest area (elevated hanging, different textured greens and browns), decorated tree and Hungarian flag.

 

Props

Small bridge, puppets (3 goats & troll)-for story

Other farm/forest animal puppets/soft toys

Large and small pieces of blue/green materials

 

 

Signs and sole-links (linking sounds and letters)

Signs: over and under, brave and frightened.

Sole-links (linking sounds with letters): over and under, splash, drip, and roar.

 

Instruments

Different size drums & recorders, cow bells, coconut shells, tambourines, water shakers (large & small) and resonance board

 

Welcome songs

Hello everybody

Weíre marching over the bridge/creeping under/swimming

Everybody do this (big and small actions)

Trip-trap, trip-trap, oooOOO, SPLASH!

I hear thunder

Wind the bobbin up (big and small version)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Row, row

Dance thumbkin, dance

I've got a body

 

Story/sound exploration

Billy goats gruff

Resonance board-trip-trap, trip-trap, oooOOH, SPLASH!, roar

 

Linking song

Grand old Duke of York

 

Craft/activity

Bridges to climb over and under (songs/movement)

Troll sock-glove puppets, with bells

Water play with bridge and animals

 

Exit songs

I hear thunder

Row, row

rumbling/trip-trap, oooOOH, SPLASH! on the resonance board

Grand old Duke of York

The wheels on the bus

Zoom, zoom, zoom

Goodbye.

Wiggle your finger