Information and guidance
Before using the content
Tell the children that today鈥檚 theme is music and in particular 'shakers' - anything you can shake to make sounds.
鈥 Talk about simple home made shakers - plastic containers filled with rice or lentils. What other things could be put in a shaker and how do the contents change the sound it makes?
Movement language
The following vocabulary will be used in the programme: shake, lighter, heavier, high, low, fast, slow, behind, bouncy.
Movement
The children move to today's song, pretending to shake a shaker with one hand, then the other hand, and then with two hands. Standing up, they follow Steven鈥檚 instructions how to shake: high, fast, slow, low, behind, on one leg without wobbling. With the bouncy music, they pretend to be a shaker, jumping up and down on the spot and landing with bendy knees.
Song (tune: 鈥楲ondon Bridge is falling down鈥)
Shake your shaker in the air, shake it here, shake it there
Shake your shaker in the air, shake your shaker.
Shake it high and shake it low, shake it fast, shake it slow,
Shake it Stop and shake it Go, shake your shaker.
Story
Baby Indira has lost her favourite toy - a shaker. Her family find other shakers to play at breakfast time, until the real shaker is found in the most unlikely place.
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