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Songs about playing in the park…and a story about waiting for an ice cream.

Introduction
• Key vocabulary: road, traffic, park, swings, ducks, pond, _ice-cream
• Cat encourages the listeners to listen carefully, recognise and identify various sounds
• Listen all around: road traffic, children playing, ducks quacking, ice cream van chimes
• Cat invites the listeners to listen to, join in and sing along with:

Song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it’
If you’re happy and you know it swing up high
If you’re happy and you know it swing up high
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it swing up high.

• First Cat encourages the children to sing along and swing their arms

• Next Cat encourages the children to pretend to feed the ducks:

If you’re happy and you know it feed the ducks
(QUACK! QUACK!)
If you’re happy and you know it feed the ducks
(QUACK! QUACK!)
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it feed the ducks
(QUACK! QUACK!)

• …and eat ice cream:
If you’re happy and you know it eat ice cream
(LICK, LICK)
If you’re happy and you know it eat ice cream
(LICK, LICK)
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it eat ice cream.
(LICK, LICK)

Story time: _A wong wait for ice cream_
Once upon a waiting time…
Use props such as pictures, puppets or toys to introduce the characters: Mira, her mum, ducks, ice cream, swings, slides, pelican crossing, dad, café. On retelling encourage the children to remem- ber the story sequence what happened first etc…

Final rhyme: ‘Five little ducks went swimming one day’

Five little ducks went swimming one day
Over the pond and far away
Mother Duck said -
Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!
But only four little ducks came back!

• Cat encourages the children to join in with the song and actions
• Open and close their hands to show Mother Duck’s beak
• Demonstrate showing the right number of fingers to consolidate how many little ducks are left

Four little ducks went swimming one day
Over the pond and far away
Mother Duck said -Quack! Quack! Quack !Quack!
But only three little ducks came back!

Three little ducks went swimming one day
Over the pond and far away
Mother Duck said -
Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!
But only two little ducks came back!

Two little ducks went swimming one day
Over the pond and far away
Mother Duck said -
Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!
But only one little duck came back!

One little duck went swimming one day
Over the pond and far away
Mother Duck said -
Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!
And all her five little ducks came back!

Final song: repeat ‘If you’re happy and you know it’

Follow-up ideas
• Discussion: can the children describe a journey which is familiar to them such as their journey home, to the park or the shops?
• Invite the children to draw or paint a route map showing some of the main features they encounter on their way home.
• Road safety. Think about Mira going to the park in the story and discuss finding safe places to cross the road: zebra crossings, pelican crossings, lollipop man / lady. Think about ‘The Green Cross Code’
• Arrange a visit from the lollipop man / lady, local community police

Rhymes to consolidate road safety: ‘Twinkle, twinkle traffic lights’

Twinkle, twinkle traffic Lights
On the corner shining bright
Red means STOP!
And green means GO!
Orange means get yourself ready to go
Twinkle, twinkle, traffic lights
On the corner shining bright

More follow-up ideas
• Make finger puppet ducks using paper to retell the rhyme and for counting activities
• Let the children retell the rhyme just using pictures to show the sequence of events
• Encourage the children to use mime to act out the rhyme
• Small world play: road mat, cars, traffic signs, create a park landscape, with small rocks, pebbles and a selection of play people to help retell the story
• Provide pictures of the story sequence for children to order, they could be pegged on to a ‘story string’ in the order they appear in the story

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