Information and guidance
Before using the content
During the course of the programme the children will be asked to participate with movement, songs and chants, while at the same time listening to the presenter who cannot be seen.
鈥 Tell the children that today鈥檚 theme is bathtime.
鈥 Do they have any special bathtime toys? Do they have favourite soap or shampoo? Do they have bubbles in their bath?
Movement language
The following vocabulary will be used in the programme: splashing, stretch, slippery, rub, straight, bend.
Movement
The children pretend to wash their face, their hands and toes. They rub soap under their arms and splash to rinse it away. With one leg stretched and the other bent towards them, they pretend to wash their toes. With the music, they choose which body parts to wash.
Song
This is the way we wash our hands, wash our hands, wash our hands
This is the way we wash our hands to make them nice and clean.
This is the way we wash our face, wash our face, wash our face
This is the way we wash our face to make it nice and clean.
This is the way we wash our toes, wash our toes, wash our toes
This is the way we wash our toes to make them nice and clean.
Story
James is having a bath. Grandad takes the opportunity to tell him a story about how children took baths a very long time ago.
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