Presenter Liz Kitchen with songs, movement activities and a story.
Movement
Movement words: wriggle and roll
Action: Road mending
- The children pretend to mend a road. Using one arm rolling over the other, they roll the road.
- Repeating arm movement but walking forward.
- Lying down on the floor and rolling their whole bodies over slowly with the music.
If you want to adapt this sequence and you have room, the children can lie down to begin with and do all the rolling actions with their whole body.
Rhyme/song
There were five in the bed
And the little one said,
鈥楻oll over! Roll over!鈥
So they all rolled over and one fell out鈥
There were four in the bed
And the little one said,
鈥楻oll over! Roll over!鈥
So they all rolled over and one fell out鈥
There were three in the bed
And the little one said,
鈥楻oll over! Roll over!鈥
So they all rolled over and one fell out鈥
There were two in the bed
And the little one said,
鈥楻oll over! Roll over!鈥
So they all rolled over and one fell out鈥
There was one in the bed
And the little one said,
鈥楪ood night!鈥
The children join in and sing along performing the rolling action with their arms. Again, if space permits you can allow them to roll their whole body over with the words: Roll over, roll over
You could allow children to roll over in small groups, as in the song: 5 together then 4, etc. Can they learn to all roll over as one big group by listening carefully?
Story - Camilla Caterpillar鈥檚 big journey
Once upon a wriggly time鈥 Camilla tries to wriggle and wriggle up to the top of the highest tree in the forest because she wants to see the whole wide world. Unfortunately she keeps falling down, but one day something strange happens and she changes into a beautiful butterfly.
Joining in words: WRIGGLE WRIGGLE WRIGGLE
The children should wriggle their fingers like a caterpillar and say the words too.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
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