Traditional animal rhymes: performing to an audience!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Tales

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Speak confidently in a familiar group.
  • Sing songs and make music, and experiment with ways of changing them.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Children learn a range of traditional nursery rhymes that include animal characters. They make adaptations to these to invent original versions. Children work collaboratively to add music and actions and perform each rhyme to an audience.

Children will:

  • Learn and adapt traditional nursery rhymes.
  • Accompany familiar songs with musical instruments and actions.
  • Work collaboratively to perform to an audience.
  • Use puppets and small world figures to create own songs and stories.

Provided Resources

  • Performance Review sheet
  • Congratulations certificate

You Will Need

  • Special visitor puppet or soft toy
  • Untuned percussion instruments
  • Semi-circles of paper
  • Googly eyes
  • Pipe-cleaners
  • Rubber ducks
  • Selection of alternative animals for water tray
  • Small world farm setting with animals
  • Digital camera