Liz Kitchen returns with more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip.’
Suggestions for classroom use
Introduction:
Listen all around: field with tractor. Individual sounds: tractor, digging, watering seed.
Song:
‘Oh, I have a field to plough!’
Said busy Farmer Ben,
So he drove his tractor up the field,
And he drove it down again.
And when he was up, he was up,
And when he was down, he was down,
And when he was only half way up,
He was neither up nor down.
‘Oh, I have some seeds to sow!’
This makes a good marching song. Give children instruments to play (e.g. drums, shakers) and go outdoors to march, sing and play.
Story time: The Enormous Turnip
Once upon a harvest time… Appoint children to take the parts in the story, holding each other around the middle to pull. Help children innovate the story by retelling it with a different vegetable and different characters – use people the children know.
Small group discussion:
- the lesson of the story (cooperation works – everyone pulling together)
- vegetables that grow underground (e.g. potato, carrot, onion, parsnip) and how/ where other vegetables grow.
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