Cat Sandion has more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and the story is ‘Anansi the spider.’
Suggestions for use in the classroom
Listening for individual sounds
Listen all around: a stormy, rainy day. Individual sounds: rain, thunder, wind.
Rhyme/song
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain.
He fell in a puddle, right up to his middle
And never went there again.
Story - Doctor Foster and the muddy puddles
Once upon a puddly day… Use pictures or real clothing to introduce Dr Foster and the various items of clothing he soaks. If possible, peg these out on a washing line.
Follow-up ideas
- Go for a walk in the rain, dressed appropriately to splash in puddles
- Collect pictures or actual items of clothing to hang on a washing line (vocabulary development: clothing words, colour, pattern)
- On a wet day draw a chalk circle round a puddle and see how when the sun comes out the puddle gets smaller
- Collect rain in a bucket to see how much has rained; practise marching, walking tiptoeing, stamping, stomping.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
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