Liz Kitchen returns with more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and the story of ‘The Little Red Hen.’
Suggestions for classroom use
Introduction:
Listen all around: farmyard. Individual farmyard sounds: cat, goose, hen.
Song:
Hickety pickety my red hen,
She lays eggs for Farmer Ben.
Farmer Ben comes every day,
To count how many eggs lie in the hay.
Pop pop pop pop pop.
When children know the song, use it as a counting game, giving each child the opportunity to make the ‘pops’, and to say how many eggs they have ‘laid’.
Story time: The Little Red Hen
Once upon a farmyard time… At the appropriate moments of first hearing produce pictures of the animals and stages in the process of grain to loaf (if possible, bring in grains of wheat, etc. and produce them from a covered basket). When retelling the story, use props (e.g. watering can to water the corn) or actions, and encourage children to join in with the children in the audio. Draw a map using arrows to show the order of events – add in key words. Act out the story in small groups, with one child as the hen.
Small group discussion:
- the lesson of the story (laziness doesn’t get you a reward but hard work does)
- discuss ‘Why were the animals unhelpful?’ and ‘Who should have shared?’
- discuss being helpful at home and school
- can children remember all the stages?
Song video: 'Hickey Pickety, my red hen'
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