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Songs and stories about fun at the summer fair.

Introduction
• Key Vocabulary: fair, roundabout, stalls, prize
• Listen all around. Cat invites the listeners to guess the sounds
• Individual sounds: carousel music, tins crashing, ducks quacking
• Cat invites the children to listen carefully and imagine that they are at a summer fair
• Children can join in with actions as they mime ‘hooking a duck’ and ‘bowling balls’ at tins.

Song: ‘We went to the summer fair’ (tune – ‘We went to the animal fair’)
We went to the summer fair
And lots of stalls were there
Then very soon my big balloon
Was floating in the air.
We went to the summer fair
And lots of stalls were there
I had lots of luck and hooked a duck
At the wonderful summer fair.
• Cat encourages the children to pretend they’ve won a big balloon and are tugging it through the air. Then, in the second part, to pretend they’re holding a fishing rod with both hands and trying to hook a duck.

Rhyme: ‘Throw, throw, throw your ball’
_Throw, throw, throw your ball
Throw it at the tin
Carefully, carefully, carefully, carefully,
I hope that you can win.
_
_Hook, hook, once again
Try to hook a duck
Carefully, carefully, carefully, carefully,
You’ll need lots of luck.
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**Story time: The summer fair
**Once upon a summer fair time…
Use pictures or real items such as bean bags, balls, plastic ducks, and balloons, to introduce the characters and help the children sequence and remember. Use these items later when retelling and sequencing the story.

Final song: repeat ‘We went to the summer fair’

Follow-up ideas and activities
• ‘Super powers’ discussion: use props to recap and retell the story
• Chat to children about what they would choose as a ‘Super power’ and why?
• Can you make a ‘Treasure hunt’ game? With clues to help find, stars, bean bags, balls, cakes, biscuits, a dog? Super Hero capes.
• Other games: i) Skittles - use bought skittles or make skittles with large plastic bottles decorated and slightly weighted and a ball; ii) Toss the beanbag - make a simple challenge such as a bean bag into a bucket or hoop from a short distance; iii) Fishing game: make a magnet fishing game with card fish. Cut out and decorate the fish. Put numbers or dots on each. Clip a paper clip a bowl on the nose of each fish and put them in a bowl. Fish with small rods made from sticks with string and a small magnet attached.
• These activities also support: PSED working as part of a team, group or class, taking turns and sharing fairly; CLL interacting with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversations; MD Number counting reliably up to 10 everyday objects; in practical activities and discussion begin to use the vocabulary involved in addition and subtraction; PD move with control and co-ordination

Links to Sports Day and PE activities
• 3 legged race / sack race / egg and spoon race / the obstacle course

Other related rhymes and songs
• ‘The animal fair’
• ‘Out and about’ by Shirley Hughes (Walker)

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