Emily S Rapunzel Hair

Emily’s Rapunzel Hair

Cecily Matthews and Freya Blackwood

Chapter 1

Read the story of Rapunzel.

Hold a tea party for all the stuffed animals belonging to the children.

Display idea – Set up a small table and chairs with stuffed toys, blue checked table cloth, tea set

Chapter 2

Act out “The Picnic”. Have a pretend picnic. Make a cardboard car. Have a box of dress-up clothes for children to wear, including an umbrella. Work in pairs with one being the grandparent and the other being the child. Make peanut butter sandwiches, bananas and ice-cream and tea. Give the toys swings, kick balls. Sing Twinkle-twinkle little star http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/twinkle.htm, play Ring-a-ring-a-roses http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/rosie.htm and hide and seek. Make up your own game of flippy floppy clowns or from this website:

Sing and act out:

10. FIVE FUNNY CLOWNS

CHORUS:

Five funny clowns, with their floppy, sloppy shoes on

Five funny clowns were bouncing up and down

Five funny clowns, with their floppy, sloppy shoes on

Five funny clowns were dancing around

And one was a happy clown, happy as could be

And this is how he danced when he danced for me.

(Happy musical interlude followed by chorus)

And one was a sad clown, sad as she could be

And this is how she danced when she danced for me.

(Sad musical interlude followed by chorus)

And one was a grumpy clown, grumpy as could be

And this is how he danced when he danced for me.

(Grumpy musical interlude followed by chorus)

And one was a scary clown, scary as could be

And this is how she danced when she danced for me.

(Scary musical interlude followed by chorus)

And one was a sleepy clown, sleepy as could be

And this is how he danced when he danced for me.

(Sleepy musical interlude)

Five funny clowns, with their floppy, sloppy shoes on

Five funny clowns were tired as could be

So five funny clowns, with their floppy, sloppy shoes on

Took off their big shoes and said goodnight to me.

Chapter 3

Learn to sing Twinkle twinkle little star http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/twinkle.htm

Baa baa black sheep http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/blacksh.htm

Polly Put the kettle on http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/pollyput.htm

Old Macdonald had a farm http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/mcdonald.htm

The wheels on the bus http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/wheels.htm

Chapter 4

See Book Week Publication activity

Chapter 5

The Letterbox frog

Make a story map for this chapter as you read the story. Write or draw what was found in the letterbox each day

Have children draw green pictures for the letter box frog and display the pictures.

Set up a display letter box (Drum shape)

Have a green envelope with a green letter inside (Use the text from Page 25)

Display pictures/charts of green frogs, pictures of pobblebonks and the book Pobblebonk by Gary Fleming (Random House Australia)

Make models of frogs out of plasticine or clay.

Find out how to raise frogs.

Book: Growing frogs French, Vivian (Walker, 2000)
The story of a little girl and her mother who take some frogspawn and watch it develop into frogs is combined with scientific facts about frog biology and sound advice on how to look after tadpoles and frogs.

Websites:

Look at life cycles of frogs.

Chapter 6

Hold a pet show

Chapter 7

Dress up for a wedding using your dress-up box.