English Reception Autumn Repetitive Chants and Rhymes

1. We're going on a bear hunt!
2. Repeat after me
3. Noises for places
4. Ending our story

1. Bear hunt prepositions
2. We're going on an animal hunt!
3. How are you going on your animal hunt?
4. The end!

1. Bear hunt small-world
2. Bear hunt collages
3. Bear den building
4. Bear obstacle course

1. Read and enjoy We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Notice repetition. Encourage children to join in wherever they can, enjoying the sounds of the words. Pause to look at and talk about illustrations
2. Act out the whole of Bear Hunt with only occasional references to the book. Children should now know most of it by heart.
3. Read Funnybones, encouraging children to join in with the repetitive phrase. Compare with We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Which story do you prefer? Why?
4. Read and act out the class version of ‘We’re all going on a ___ hunt’. Do we all know it off by heart? Use percussion instruments to create faster beats/tension as together you go on your bear hunt (M).

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Bear was afraid
Introduce to children at the beginning of the week, send a copy home to share with parents, rehearse and chant throughout the week, waiting to go to lunch, for fun! Develop performance and add actions.

Websites
We're going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, from youtube.com

Resources
Tray with sand, soil, grass clippings etc. for a bear hunt small-world
Items for obstacle course e.g. bench, trays of shallow water, wooden blocks

1. Little Rabbit Foo Foo
2. Our new version
3. This is how it ends
4. We are editors!

1. Questions and answers!
2. Pick an ending
3. Writing our endings
4. Illustrations

1. Bopping!
2. Small world and sensory play
3. Writing
4. Maths and construction

1. Read and enjoy Little Rabbit Foo Foo.
2. Reread LRFF with children joining in. Rehearse the repeated phrases, so they start memorising these – invent and add actions to help children remember exactly how it goes.
3. Read LRFF with children performing the repeated phrases with expression using the actions agreed last time. Set the repetitive refrain to music using wind instruments and soft percussion (EAD).
4. Read The Elephant and the Bad Baby, encouraging children to join in with the repeated phrase. Compare with Little Rabbit Foo Foo. Which do children prefer? Why?

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Introduce to children part-way through the week and discuss how, like Little Rabbit Foo Foo, someone has been naughty!
Perform the rhyme whilst clapping hands (it is a clapping-rhyme) and point to different children to be the robber! Rehearse on Thursday and Friday – send home for w/end.

Websites
Little Rabbit Foo Foo by Michael Rosen, from youtube.com