Presenter Liz Kitchen with songs, rhymes and a story. The programme has a night time theme.
Suggestions for use in the classroom
Listening for individual sounds
Encourage the children to listen to the sounds that play throughout the episode. Listen carefully, do you know what the sound is? What can you hear? What does it sound like? Can you add actions to the sound? Listen all around: domestic sounds, includingclock chiming. Individual sounds: bathwater, bedclothes, lullaby on music box.
Rhyme/song
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.
When the blazing sun is set
When the grass with dew is wet
Then you show your little light
Twinkle twinkle all the night
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.
Story - Mattie and the star
Once upon a bedtime鈥 If possible use pictures to introduce the magical star, the pirate ship and the space rocket. Beforelistening to the story a second time, talk about bedtime (bedtime routines, teddies, going to sleep, dreams).
Follow-up ideas
- Discuss bedtime routines for dolls, etc. in the home corner and encourage children to put them to bed
- Make a bedtime frieze with pictures of all the things children do before going to bed
- Ask the children to make a collection of good bedtime stories for borrowing.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
Song video: 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star'
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