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his scissors and open the parcel, (Talk to one of the students) what do you think he found inside the parcel? What do you think was inside the parcel? Have a guess.
Just a parcel.
Just a parcel? An empty parcel? No! What a horrible thing.
Some special cloth
Some special cloth! What a clever boy you are. Yes. He found a piece of cloth that was…Here we go…
(Form a shelter above his head with hands) As dark as night, (Draw a curve with his hand) as colorful as the rainbow, (Clench his fists) as strong as steel and (Rubbing his fingers) as soft as silk. (Write the word “Silk” on the blackboard)
‘Now, I am going to make myself a new suit.’ So he took his scissors. (Talk to all students and form a pair of scissors with his fingers) Take your scissors. With his scissors, he cut the cloth. Snip~Snip~Snip Say it with me.
(Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip
And he sewed the cloth. (Mime sewing the cloth with a sewing machine) Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da
(Mime sewing the cloth with a sewing machine) Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da
And with his needle, he stitched the cloth. (Mime sewing the cloth with a needle) Stitch~Stitch~Stitch Go!
(Mime sewing the cloth with a needle) Stitch~Stitch~Stitch
He made himself a new suit, and he liked that suit so much. He wore it here; he wore it there; he wore it everywhere! Well done. He wore it everywhere. In fact, he wore it so much. The suit wore out. It has holes, holes, holes, holes, holes.
Eww…He was going to throw it away. When he looked again and saw that there was enough to make himself a waistcoat. (Point at his own waistcoat) This is a waistcoat, what I am wearing because it comes to the waist. So, he took his scissors, and with his scissors, he cut the cloth and here we go. (Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Cut~Cut~Cut
(Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Cut~Cut~Cut
And he sewed the cloth. (Mime sewing the cloth with a sewing machine) Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da
(Mime sewing the cloth with a sewing machine) Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da
And with his needle, he stitched the cloth.
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And he made himself a magnificent waistcoat, and he liked that waistcoat so much. He wore it here; he wore it there; he wore it…
… everywhere!
Until it, too was worn out. It has holes, holes, holes, holes, holes! Eww...! So he was going to throw it away. But he looked again, he saw that there was enough material to make himself a cap. (Mime putting on a cap) A Cap. So he took his scissors and he cut the cloth. (Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip (Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip
And he sewed the cloth.
(Mime sewing the cloth with a sewing machine) Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da~Da da da da da da da
And with his needle, he stitched the cloth
(Mime sewing the cloth with a needle) Stitch~Stitch~Stitch
And he made himself (Mime putting on the cap) SHOOP! a really cool cap, and he liked that cap so much. He wore it here; he wore it there; he wore it…
… everywhere!
Until it, too was worn out. Holes, holes, holes, holes, holes! He was going to throw it away. When he looked again, he saw that there was enough material to make himself (pointing to a button on his shirt) a button. So he took his scissors and he cut the cloth. (Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip (Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip
And he sewed the cloth.
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And with his needle, he stitched the cloth.
(Mime sewing the cloth with a needle) Stitch~Stitch~Stitch
And he made himself a wonderful button and he liked that button so much. He wore it here; he wore it there; he wore it…
… everywhere!
Until it, too was worn out. Holes, holes, holes, holes, holes! He was just about to throw it away. When he looked again and saw that there was enough cloth to make himself a story. A story. So he took his scissors and very carefully because it’s such a small piece of cloth and he cut with scissors. Here we go! (Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip
(Mime cutting the cloth with scissors) Snip~Snip~Snip And he sewed the cloth.
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da da da da da~Da da da da da da da And with his needle, he stitched the cloth.
(Mime sewing the cloth with a needle) Stitch~Stitch~Stitch.
(Mime being hurt by a needle) OUCH! So he made himself a story and he liked that story so much. He told it here; he told it there; he told it…
… everywhere!
BUT but but but but, because it was a story. It never wore out, and he’s telling that story to this very day. Thank you very much.
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Now this story is a journey. Just to help some people (Put up a drawing on the blackboard), so we’re going to (Point to the different places/objects while talking) start at home. We gonna go…we come to a fence. You know what a fence is? Yes? Then we gonna go over a bridge, we got some mud. (Talk to the students) You’ve got some shoes on. Good! OK! We gonna go over the hill, across a river, and we come to a cave. And what we are looking for in the cave is a bear! (Show a picture of bears) A bear! We’ve got some actions. That’s why you need to join in to do this, otherwise you will never remember. Here we go, copy me.
(Slap thighs, clap hands, snap fingers) We’re going on a bear hunt We’re gonna catch (mime the action of a bear) a B-I-G one, (Point at himself with his thumbs) I’m not scared, I’m not scared!
(Reach out both arms to the sides) It’s a beautiful day
(Slap thighs, clap hands, snap fingers) We come to a fence, (Raise the left arm high) A very tallllll--ll fence
(Mime going over a fence with his left arm) We can’t go over it
(Mime opening a fence and going through it with his left arm) We can’t go HUH HUH through it (Mime going under the fence with his left arm) We’ve got to go unnn--der it
(Mime lifting a fence) Hugggh! Huggghh! Huggghhh!!
(Mime crawling) Crawl! Crawl! Crawl! Crawl!
(Slap thighs, clap hands, snap fingers) We’re going on a bear hunt We’re gonna catch (mime the action of a bear) a B-I-G one, (Fold his arms) I’m not scared! Huh
(Reach out both arms to the sides) It’s a beautiful day
(Slap thighs, clap hands, snap fingers) We come to a bridge,
(Mime crawling over a long bridge with his fingers) A very lonnn--g bridge (Mime going under a bridge with his left arm) We can’t go under it
(Mime going through a bridge with his left arm) We can’t go through it (Mime going over a bridge with his left arm) We’ve got to go over it
(Stand up, march and salute) Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Hey!
(Slap thighs, clap hands, snap fingers) We come to some mud, (Mime touching some very sticky mud) Very sticcc--ky mud