Information and guidance
Before using the content
Tell the children that today’s theme is donkeys and that they will pretend to be a donkey during the programme.
• Have any of the children ever seen a donkey? What do they remember about it?
• Do they know what sounds a donkey makes? Or what donkeys like to eat?
• Have any of them ever been for a ride on a donkey - perhaps at the seaside?
Movement language
The following vocabulary will be used in the programme: wiggle, waggle, clip, clop, high, *low, tip-toe, forwards, backwards, flip, flap, flop, sniff, munch.
Movement
During today’s programme the children pretend to move like a donkey. They make donkey ears, by wiggling and waggling their hands above their head and then use their arms to be front hooves.
They hold their hands up high to ‘clip’, down low to ‘clop’ and for the medium sounds they place them midway in front of their ‘donkey’s nose’.
The children stand up on their ‘back hooves’, moving forwards and backwards on tip-toe. As they join in with the ‘Clippety clop’ game they move forwards and backwards on their tiptoes, and use their hands to wiggle and waggle their donkey ears.
Following Steven’s instructions they think about the front of the donkey with a nose that ‘sniffs’ and the back of the donkey - with a tail that flips, flaps, flops - and they add these actions to the other donkey movements.
Finally the children think about the donkey’s mouth - which can ‘hee-haw’ and eat - so that with the music they can add munching and crunching to the previous donkey movements. Encourage strong, straight arms at all times.
Song
Donkey, Donkey don’t you stop
Just let your feet go clippety-clop!
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Now let your ears go wiggle-waggle-wiggle!
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Next let your nose go sniff, sniff, sniff!
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Donkey, Donkey don’t you stop
Now let your tail go flip, flap, flop!
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Next it’s time for Donkey’s lunch!
(Hee-hee-haw! Hee-hee-haw!)
Munch an apple, crunch, crunch, crunch!
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Story: No one talks to a donkey
In a village in India a Little Grey Donkey works very hard. He meets some other animals as he walks along the road, but they are all too busy to talk to him. Finally he meets a little girl who makes him very happy.
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