Unit 8
Day and Night
Lesson 3 Language day, night, Pandy’s sleeping, Pandy’s dancing, Good night, Good morning, sun, moon, star, cloud, hot family, book, sandals, rabbit
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Objectives Take part in a song Develop gross motor skills through actions Use mime to represent different activities Distinguish between daytime and night time activities
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Material puppet, playhouse poster, blue tack, crayons, CD Audio, flashcards (sun, moon, stars, cloud, day, night), Activity Book (page 33)
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Warm Up
Dancing in the garden, Dancing in the warm sun. Fun, fun, fun. Fun, fun, fun.
• Play the Hello song (CD Track 04) and greet the • 78
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children using Pandy. Ask a few children: What’s your name? and ask others: Are you happy? Using blue tack, stick the flashcards (sun, moon, star, cloud) on different parts of the playhouse poster. Invite the children or groups of children to touch or point to the different cards. Show the flashcards for day and for night and discuss what you do at night and during the day.
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Panda Pointer Keep in mind that the children should not be expected to sing all the words to the song. Encourage them to follow along doing the actions.
• After the song, take out the panda puppet and
say: Pandy, Pandy, come and see, who is as quiet as can be? Encourage the children to put their heads down and pretend to sleep.
• Distribute the Class Books and show the children
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where page 66 is. Look at the picture and ask the children to point to the day scene and then to the night scene. Ask them to point to Pandy. Say: Shhhh, Pandy’s sleeping: Good night Pandy! for the night scene, and: Look, Pandy’s dancing. Good morning, Pandy, for the day scene. Ask the children to identify other items in the picture (kite, book, bed, rabbit etc.). Listen to the song (CD Track 37) and show the children the actions. Listen to the recording again and encourage the children to do the actions.
Track 37 Speaker: Sing and do. Goodnight! Goodnight! Pandy’s sleeping, Pandy’s sleeping (mime) Sleeping in his bedroom Sleeping in his bedroom Sleep, sleep, sleep. Sleep, sleep, sleep. Good morning! Good morning! Pandy’s dancing, Pandy’s dancing (mime)
Moral and Civic education Talk to the children about things they do before they go to bed (brush their teeth, put on their pyjamas etc.) Collect the Class Books and distribute the Activity Books. Turn to page 33 and ask the children to name the characters (Ben, Gina, Pandy). Point to the sun and ask What’s this? The sun or the moon? Point to Ben and ask Is he sleeping or is he awake? (awake) Point to Pandy sleeping and ask Is he sleeping or is he awake? (sleeping). Tell the children to join the daytime activities to the sun, and the night time ones to the moon, as shown in the book. Then they can colour if they want.
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Closing
• Collect the Activity Books. • Sing the Bye Bye song (CD Track 06) using Pandy at the end of the lesson.