Bed time
Share the rhyme and dramatise it.
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,
Rapping at the windows, crying through the locks:
'Are all the children in their beds, it's past eight o'clock?'
Planned learning intentionTo develop self-confidence and fluency in speech Adult:child ratio 1:6
Resources
Pictures of day and night scenes clock dressing gown pyjamas slippers night-cap candle-stick candle, clock
Step by step
* Ask the children to sit in a circle and look at the pictures of daytime and night-time scenes.
* Discuss what time the children normally go to bed and let them take turns to set the hands on the clock face to their bedtime.
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