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Movement
• Children roll into a tight ball shape to begin a growing sequence as a bulb deep down in the soil.
• With the music they stretch up their arms, twisting and turning to show the shoot growing towards the sun.
• Standing up they make a tight bud shape with hands clasped together before slowly opening their fingers to reveal the petals of a flower.
Song: ‘Why does it happen each Spring?’
New leaves are growing because it is Spring
New buds are showing because it is Spring
New grass needs mowing because it is Spring
Oh why does it happen each Spring?
New flowers are peeping because it is Spring
New lambs are leaping because it is Spring
New birds are cheeping because it is Spring
Oh why does it happen each Spring?
The children are invited to show some Springtime events. Wriggling fingers upwards to show the plants, opening and shutting their hands like baby bird beaks or bouncing hands up and down like lambs.
Story: Toby Toad waits for Spring
When Toby Toad refuses to hibernate he is the last one awake when Spring finally comes.
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