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Movement
• The children curl into a round ball shape, tucking in head, hands and feet like a snail in its shell.
• With slow snail music, they move one knee forward, then the other to crawl with slow, smooth movements.
Song (to the tune ‘Hickory dickory dock’)
The snail is moving slowly,
See him slide across the grass,
He leaves a silver path behind,
We all know that he has passed.
The snail is never worried,
Though he wanders far and wide,
He carries his house upon his back,
When he’s tired he crawls inside.
The children make snail shapes with their hands, curling one into a fist with two fingers for the snail’s horns and the other held flat out for the grass that the snail slides across.
Story: The snail trail
Tommy follows a snail trail through his garden.
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