REPETITION! REPETITION! - Raa Raa the Noisy Lion

ACTIVITY SHEET - REPETITION
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Raa Raa likes to be the leader in his
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Raa Raa and his friends are beginning to master
their language and communication skills by
listening and repeating sounds. Their noisy
adventures give them the opportunity to discover
new objects, places and animals all while having
fun together.
Why Repetition?
What to do:
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Take a strip of card long enough to fit around the
heads of the children in your setting.
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Once the card is decorated secure the two ends of the
length of card using sticky tape to form your crown.
Cut the top length into a zig zag or scalloped pattern.
Ask the children to decorate the card using pencils,
pens, paints and decorative materials such as glitter,
sequins or feathers.
Colouring pencils/pens
Coloured paper
Decorative materials –
sequins, feathers, glitter
Safety scissors
Sticky tape
Glue
How to play:
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Stand the children in a circle and explain they will be playing a game
where they will be copying and repeating an action or sound.
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The person who gives the instructions wears the Raa Raa
crown to indicate they are leading the game.
Young children benefit greatly from routine
and repetition both in their daily lives and
to support their learning. Many children will
enjoy hearing a favourite story read to them
again and again as they enjoy recognising
and understanding the words.
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Repetition is particularly important for
learning new words, as hearing words in
different situations helps children really
understand what different words mean,
which is important for talking, listening
and learning.
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For EYFS early learning goals covered by this sheet see your Practitioners Guide.
For curriculum links for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales go to
What you
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Card
Start the game off, by saying “Raa Raa says – roar like a lion.”
Encourage all the children to repeat after you and roar like a lion.
Now add other actions and statements into the game such as Raa Raa
says – trumpet like an elephant, act like a monkey, reach up tall like a
giraffe, gallop like a zebra, show your teeth like a crocodile etc.
Once you have given a few examples, pass the crown on to someone
else and encourage them to use the statement “Raa Raa says” and
then add in their actions and sounds to be repeated.
M ORE FUN
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Try playing the game
giving some of the
instructions without
saying “Raa Raa says...”
In this case children
should not do the task –
can they listen carefully
enough?
Play a simple “barrier game”, great for
communication – begin with a simple
outline picture of a palace, one for you and
one for each of the children. The aim is to
give directions so all your palaces look the
same – e.g. colour the door blue, colour
the walls green, colour the flags yellow....
do they all look the same?
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Raa Raa’s friend Hufty has a great mem
‘I went to the market’
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the children in your setting by playing
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on a trip to the jungle. Their task is
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or animal toys around to help
Hunting around the jungle for new things
to explore is something Ooo Ooo the
monkey loves to do and identifying objects
and repeating their name is a great way
for children to learn new words.
What to do:
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Hide your selection of items around your
setting so that the children will be able to
find them, keep one of each item with you.
Gather the children together and show them
one of the items and ask them to name it.
Then send the children out to see if they
can find a matching item somewhere in
the setting.
You can give simple clues, to help children learn
“position” words e.g. it is under something, it is
behind something.
Once they have found one ask them to return
to you and ask them to name the item they
have found.
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What you
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A selection of small
items which can be
placed around your
setting, e.g. pencils,
balls, books, etc. One
of each item for every
child taking part.
Once all the items have been collected, name each
of them with the children, adding in some describing
words too, eg. the long pencil, the bouncy ball.
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Try the same activity in an outside space using natural
objects such as leaves, stones and flowers.
Encourage the children to point out different items in
your setting and point out anything which they notice
is new or has moved to a different place.
Let the children hide some objects then give you clues
of how to find them.
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What to do:
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Sit the children in a circle. Explain you are going to imagine you are
heading off on a trip to the jungle to see Raa Raa and his friends.
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Explain that the children will need to think of animals they will see on
their trip to the jungle and they will each have a turn to say their idea
as the game moves around the circle.
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Demonstrate the game by starting with “On my trip to the jungle
I will see… a lion” (insert animal of your choice).
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Then demonstrate the next stage with another adult “On my trip to
the jungle I will see… a lion and a snake” (insert animal of your choice).
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Repeat the list after each addition and encourage the children to join
in remembering the list and then ask them to add an animal when it
gets to their turn in the circle.
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See if you can make it all the way around the circle
adding new animals each time!
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Play a category game – either draw pictures or use toy animals in the
setting. Decide with the children where the different animals might live;
an elephant lives in the jungle, a cow lives on a farm, a squirrel lives in a
wood, a dog lives in my house etc. Using categories in this way
really helps children learn and understand new words.
Have pairs of toy animals that you can talk about – children
can say what is the same about them – “they have four legs”
- and what is different – “tigers are stripy, lions are plain.” You
can play this as a circle time game, passing pairs
of animals round the circle.
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ACTIVITY SHEET - RETELLING
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Raa Raa and
Friends Puppets
spending time together playing
Raa Raa and his jungle friends enjoy
Create some engaging finger
games and heading off on adventures.
children to recreate
puppets for your setting to allow the
their very own stories.
Raa Raa’s adventures and to make up
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Raa Raa and his friends are always
heading off on great adventures,
inspired by a new noise, mystery or
puzzle they have found in the jungle.
They have lots of stories to tell and love
sharing them with the children
who like to watch their
adventures unfold.
Why Retelling?
Encouraging children to retell a story
they have heard or tell others about an
experience they have had is a great way
of developing their communication skills
and gives them confidence when working
in a group environment. Allow children as
much opportunity as possible to share
their thoughts and stories with
their friends and adults
around them.
For EYFS early learning goals covered by this sheet see your Practitioners Guide.
For curriculum links for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales go to
What to do:
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Share some pictures of jungle animals
with the children. You could also share with
them the pictures of Raa Raa and his friends
included in the practitioner’s guide.
What you
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Ask the children to choose animal pictures to
represent Raa Raa and his friends and then
support them with cutting out the pictures.
Create finger tubes using the coloured card
to fit around the fingers of the children.
Secure the tubes with sticky tape.
Pictures of jungle animals
(lions, monkeys, elephants,
giraffes, crocodiles and
zebras) from magazines,
newspapers or the internet
Coloured card
Sticky tape/glue
Safety scissors
Attach each animal picture to a separate card
finger tube using glue or sticky tape.
Alternatively create your own animal puppet
faces using paper, colouring pencils/pens and
then attach these to the card tubes.
Once ready allow the children to use their finger
puppets to act out their own Raa Raa adventures,
telling the story as they go along or recreate the
episode Ooo Ooo’s Jungle Drums which appears
on the DVDs within this pack.
MORE FUN
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Create a story box to support
the children retelling the Raa Raa
story. Using a shoe box, decorate
and fill it with items related to the
story such as jungle leaves, twigs,
jungle animals and a blue sky. The
story box can create the backdrop
for the children’s stories.
Encourage the children to
carry out a performance
to the class or take the
performance home to
show to parents, siblings
and other family members.
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Active Adventures
Crocky the crocodile is always ready to explore
his jungle home. Give the children in your setting
the opportunity to get exploring and have an
adventure of their own and then tell their
classmates all about it.
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books and discovering new stories.
Raa Raa’s friend Topsy loves reading
at way of engaging children’s
Retelling a well known story is a gre
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memory skills and develops their use
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words and phrases. Try this fun acti
know stories as a stimulus.
What to do:
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Allow the children in your setting to spend some time outside
your classroom in a local park, at the beach or in a play area on
a supervised trip.
Encourage the children to explore their environment and have
fun investigating their surroundings with their friends.
They could be encouraged to take one item back to the setting,
e.g. a twig from the park, a pebble from the beach, a bus ticket –
this will help them to retell their story.
Once back in your setting, create a circle time activity where
the children have the opportunity to tell you and their friends what
they did while exploring outside; encourage them to describe what
they saw, heard, smelt and felt while they were exploring.
Use a narrative structure to help the children with their retelling
by asking who was there, where did you go, when did you go and
what happened?
This activity allows the children to retell their adventures and
develop their skills in communicating events, sights, sounds
and feelings.
MORE FUN
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Ask the children to bring in photos or objects from
home and encourage them to retell stories linked to
these items to their friends.
Play out different story ideas, e.g. have chairs lined up like a bus
– they are travelling to the jungle, think what might happen next.
Have additional ideas and props to add to the story - “oh no a flat
tyre...” Encourage the children to retell their story game - they
could tell someone at home about their adventures.
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What to do:
Sit the children in a circle.
Choose a well-known story that you can tell the
children from memory, it may be a story you
regularly read to the children. Alternatively, make
up a simple story to share with the children.
Tell the story to the children using a selection of
props along the way to animate the story and
stimulate their imaginations.
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Once you have told the story, go back to the items/props
and encourage the children to remind you what role they
had in the story. Prompt them with questions such as: Who
ate out of this huge bowl? Who wore this glass slipper?
What has this pumpkin got to do with the story?
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The aim of the activity is to get the children thinking about
the story they have just heard and remembering the key
points in relation to a visual stimulus.
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See if the children can retell you the story using the props
along the way.
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What you
need:
A selection of items or props
related to a well known story –
these could be made up from a
range of toys, everyday items,
clothing or food.
Example stories to do:
Story
Props
Little Red
Riding Hood
wolf, red cape,
basket, grandma
glasses
Goldilocks
and the
Three Bears
porridge, different
sized bowls, bears,
wooden spoons
Cinderella
glass slipper, clock,
pumpkin, prince,
party dress
When telling the story, children have to look out for the props and act
out that part of the story, e.g. pretend to eat porridge, put a wolf mask
on when he appears etc. Have a box of additional “props” that aren’t in
the story. What would happen if we added one of these props to the
story we just heard, so, if the big bad wolf had to wear a baseball cap
or Cinderella had a racing car etc? Can they retell the story adding in
one or two new props?
Try creating your own stories by collecting together a selection
of items and then working with the children to think of how
they could all come together in a story. Use a narrative structure
to help the children with their retelling by asking who, where,
when and what happened?
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ACTIVITY SHEET - RHYME
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Monkeys on the line
little monkey who is always
Raa Raa’s friend Ooo Ooo is a cheeky
keys, hang them up in your
full of fun. Create ten of your own mon
an active rhyme activity
setting and engage the children with
using the song below.
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Raa Raa’s home - the
Jingly Jangly Jungle - is
full of sounds, music and
noises. Rhyming words and
sounds help the friends to
learn new things about the
world around them and
to enjoy their own music
making capabilities!
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For EYFS early learning goals covered by this sheet see your Practitioners Guide.
For curriculum links for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales go to
Ask the children to draw and colour in a
picture of a monkey using the magazine/
newspaper or print out pictures as inspiration.
You could also take a look at Ooo Ooo in
Ooo Ooo’s Jungle Drums on the DVD within
this pack. (You will need to make 10
monkeys in total).
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String a length of wool, string or washing line
across a wall in your setting.
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Help the children to cut out their monkeys and
then hang them on the length of wool, string
or washing line using a clothes peg.
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Why Rhyme?
Rhyme and rhyming words play an
important part in the development of
early literacy skills. The simplicity of
nursery rhymes is appealing to children
from an early age as they like the sound
of the rhyming words and the rhythm
that accompanies them. Children love
the repetition and silliness of these
nursery rhymes!
What to do:
What you
need:
Magazine/newspaper
or printed out pictures
of monkeys
Plain paper or card
Colouring pens, pencils
or paints
Safety scissors
Length of wool,
string or washing line
Clothes pegs
Sing the rhyme below to the tune of ‘10 green
bottles’ and remove a monkey from the line
each time the numbers change in the song.
“10 little monkeys hanging on the line
10 little monkeys hanging on the line
When one fell off and climbed another vine
There were 9 little monkeys hanging on the line.”
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Continue singing the song decreasing the number
until there are no monkeys left on the line.
MORE FUN
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Try using Raa Raa’s other friends
or animals to fit with the rhyme.
Get the children to become the
monkeys for you and balance on a
washing line laid on the ground,
they can each sit down one by
one as the song progresses.
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Raa Raa’s friend Topsy likes to learn new words whenever she can and
likes to show off how many words she know to her friends. Encourage
the children in your setting to discover new words and rhyming sounds
through this fun creative game. Play this game in small groups to allow
them the opportunity to explore rhyming sounds.
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a simple rhyme, while being active outs
this rhyme with the children
children with their outdoor space. Use
ing words at the end.
and see if they can add their own rhym
To be sung to the rhyme of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
What you
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Name the items you are holding up and ask the
children to repeat the names of the objects aloud.
Ask the children if the names sound the same or
do they sound different?
Pairs of rhyming objects
or images of objects such
as a shell and a bell, a cat
and a hat, a sock and a
rock etc
Discuss that the object names which sound
the same are rhyming words.
A tray or cloth bag
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At the end of the rhyme before they choose their rhyming
word ask the children to stop moving.
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Examples of words they could add are; bees, cheese, fleas,
knees, sneeze, keys, peas.
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Once the children have chosen a word get them
to add an action to their word – this could be
buzzing a round like a bee or holding their nose
for a stinky cheese.
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See how many verses you can sing adding a new
word each time.
Fill a tray or cloth bag with pairs of rhyming
objects or pictures, such as a shell and a bell.
Hold up two objects at random.
Share a few examples of rhyming objects with
the children, saying their names aloud.
Next invite a child to choose an object from the tray or bag and say its name
aloud. You may like to say the name first and the child then repeats it.
Encourage the child to pick another object which they think has a rhyming
name. Make sure you name both objects aloud and ask the rest of the
children if they have found a rhyming pair.
Invite the children up to match all the objects until the tray is cleared.
MORE FUN
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Encourage the children to look around their environment in your
setting, outside or at home to find more rhyming object pairs.
Play around with rhyme – say your favourite nursery rhymes, but
leave out the last word – encourage children to fill in the gaps.
Play around with the characters names – can you think of words that
rhyme – Raa Raa drives a yellow car, Hufty is so scruffy, Topsy thinks
she’s popsy..etc. The words don’t have to make sense or even be real
words, just playing around with rhyme is good practice and fun.
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Sing the rhyme below with the children and see if they can add a
word to the end of the rhyme that rhymes with trees. Encourage
the children to walk around in a circle shape as they sing the rhyme.
“Playing outside is fun for me
I like looking at the trees
I like to breathe the clean fresh air
And feel the breeze blow through my hair
Playing outside is fun for me
I like looking at the .....”
MORE FUN
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Create your own rhymes to familiar nursery
rhyme tunes. Choose a theme and encourage
the children to help you find rhyming words.
Play a ‘Hello game’ in a circle – throw a soft ball or bean bag saying
the child’s name and a word that rhymes; hello Issy, sometimes she
gets dizzy, hello Nic she is super quick, ...where there isn’t a real word,
make one up...Hello Ibrahim, he is a lovely wibrahim.
Find poems and rhymes and read them aloud to the children. See if
there are any they recognise and encourage them to tell you and the
rest of the group about rhymes and poems they have heard before.
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ACTIVITY SHEET - RHYTHM
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Raa Raa
Tambourines
of introducing the concept of
Musical instruments are a great way
d Hufty is a great musician and
rhythm to your group. Raa Raa’s frien
music. Make your very own
loves to entertain his friends with his
and clap to, they can create a lovely
rhythmic instruments to move, sing
sound and look great too!
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Raa Raa loves moving to a jungle beat and
along with his friends finds that a good
rhythm can make a sound more
memorable. Raa Raa enjoys looking
for new and noisy things to do!
Why Rhythm?
The ability to keep and recognise a
steady beat is important for the
development of speech. A sense of
rhythm enables children to pick up
patterns in spoken words and phrases skills important for speech development,
but also when learning to read.
Engaging children with simple clapping
rhythms which accompany poems, rhymes
and songs is a fun way to get them started.
Remember there is rhythm all around us;
build in opportunities to find rhythm
wherever you are!
For EYFS early learning goals covered by this sheet see your Practitioners Guide.
For curriculum links for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales go to
What to do:
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Ask the children to decorate the underside of 2
paper plates by drawing Raa Raa’s lion face onto
one and colouring or painting the other one a
bright colour.
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Stick the two plates together using sticky tape
to create a ‘UFO’ shape.
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Punch holes at regular intervals around the
edge of the plates and start to feed a piece
of ribbon through the holes.
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As you feed the ribbon through, lace a few
beads, foil discs or bells onto the ribbon at
regular intervals so they clatter together.
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What you
need:
Paper plates
Colouring pencils, crayons
or paints
A selection of beads,
foil bottle tops/discs
or bells
Sticky tape
Hole punch
Ribbon
Once you get all the way around the plate tie the two
ends of the ribbon together securely.
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You could add more decorative items to your
tambourines, try adding natural decoration likes
leaves and flowers to reflect Raa Raa’s jungle
home!
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Give your tambourine a special shake and
hear the jingly jangly sounds it makes!
MORE FUN
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Try using your tambourines to signify a change of
topic, or for a ‘Stop/Go” game. See if the children
can listen out for the sound rather than your voice.
When reading a story, have the children shake their
tambourines when they hear a specific character
mentioned – can they tap the tambourine to the
rhythm of a name – big...bad...wolf?
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Raa Raa loves to hunt out new sounds in the Jingly
Jangly Jungle, find the rhythm all around you by taking
the children outside and setting off on a sound search.
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Raa Raa’s friend Zebby is a great liste
playing this fun game to
children in your setting can listen by
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What to do:
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Create a sound search sheet with pictures of different objects
representing sounds they may hear - for example; a dog, a bird,
a car, an aeroplane, people talking and radios playing music.
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Ask the children to tick off the different sounds they hear. Did they
hear any others to add to the sheet?
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Encourage the children to walk on different types of surface and listen
out for the different sounds made - for example: a gravel path, a sandy
beach, soft grass, pavement flag stones and tarmac.
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Describe the sounds you can hear and get the children to do the same shoes on a pavement – clip clop, on a gravel path – crunch, crunch etc .
Once back in your setting ask the children what kinds of sounds they
heard while out and about, see if the children can recreate any of the
noises they heard.
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Talk about where they heard the sounds to support
more language development – in the trees, on the floor,
up in the sky.
MORE FUN
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Create a natural noises table where you can display
things from nature and the world around us which can create
sounds and rhythms. Leaves, seed pods, sticks, shells and conkers
are all items you may find outside depending on the time of year,
and can all create different sounds and rhythms.
Share with the children some natural noises which Raa
Raa and his friends might hear in their home in the
jungle - do they sound different to the noises we hear?
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How to play:
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Sit in a circle with the children.
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Explain that you will be starting a clapping beat
and the children are going to copy the beat and
pass it around the circle.
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Start with something simple such as 2 slow claps
folowed by 3 quick claps.
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Once you have demonstrated this beat ask the child next
to you in the circle to copy what you have just done.
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Pass the beat around the circle with each child copying
the beat from the child before them.
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If a child struggles with the beat join in with them to help
them out.
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Once you have successfully passed the beat all the way
around the circle, start a new beat or select a child to
start one for the group.
MORE FUN
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Make your game more active by adding in a march and get
the children to follow a leader around the room marching
and clapping out the chosen beat – coordinating bodies,
hands, listening skills and concentration is a real challenge!
Chose a leader and get them to “ask” other children
to join in the game by clapping out the rhythm of
their name ...Is..a..bel, Wal..eed, Josh..u..a, Nic..o..la,
Mark, An..drew.
Watch Ooo Ooo’s Jungle Drums on the DVD within this
pack and listen to Raa Raa’s beat. See if the children
can clap out Raa Raa’s beat for themselves.
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