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Songs about tigers…and the story of The Little Tiger Cub

Introduction
• Key vocabulary: India, Tiger, stripes, lion, fire
• Listen all around - careful listening required
• Cat invites the listeners to guess the sounds: a tiger growling; a fire crackling; a cat purring
• Cat introduces the song ‘I hear tigers’ and she invites the listeners to listen and then join in with the song

Song - ‘I hear tigers’ (tune - ‘Frere Jacques’ / ‘I hear thunder’)
I hear tigers, I hear tigers
Hark don’t you, hark don’t you?
Growling, growling tigers,
Growling, growling tigers
I hear too, so do you.
I see tigers, I see tigers,
Look don’t you, look don’t you?
Stripy, orange tigers,
Stripy, orange tigers,
I see too, so do you.

Story time: The little tiger cub
Once upon an Indian time…
If possible, to help the children focus and maintain attention, provide a selection of resources and props, such as a tiger, cat, bowl, milk, puppets and soft toys and use these items (along with pictures) to illustrate the story. These resources can also be used later as prompts to help retell and sequence the story.

Hindi counting rhyme (‘One potato, two potato’)
Ek aloo
Do aloo
Teen aloo
Chaar
Paanch aloo
Chhah aloo
Saat aloo
Nau
• Cat encourages the children to repeat the rhyme, explaining that ‘aloo’ is Hindi for potato and to show 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 fingers from ‘Ek’ to ‘Saat’.

Final song: repeat ‘I hear tigers’

I hear tigers, I hear tigers
Hark don’t you, hark don’t you?
Growling, growling tigers,
Growling, growling tigers
I hear too, so do you.
I see tigers, I see tigers,
Look don’t you, look don’t you?
Stripy, orange tigers,
Stripy, orange tigers,
I see too, so do you.

Follow up ideas
The elephant goes like this, like that (Crawl like an elephant)
He’s terribly big (Stand tall)
He’s terribly fat (Stand wide, arms out)
He has no fingers (Hide fingers)
He has no toes (Wiggle toes)
But goodness gracious…what a nose! (Point to nose)

Finger play rhyme
Two tall gentlemen met down a lane,
Bowed most politely and bowed once again,
‘How do you do?’ and
‘How do you do?’ and
‘How do you do?’ again
• Replace ‘How do you do?’ with ‘Namaste’ / ‘Ola’ / ‘Bonjour’

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