Listen and Play Summer 2013 Listen and play theme 7. Funny Bunny Hello! Hello. Listen everyone, Listen and Play. Where are we to day? We re outside in the forest Today we ve come to the forest to find two animals who live under ground here s the first one, it doesn t really make a sound but it has a fluffy tail and a nose which twitches when it moves it likes to.. H-O-P H-O-P Can you put those sounds together and make a word. Hop, the rabbit likes to hop Yes, the word is hop! And the first animal is a small grey rabbit that lives in a barrow in the ground. Listen and play again, the next animal makes a strange sound it lives in a hole in the ground too and it has a long bushy tail, do you know what it is? It s a F-O-X F-O-X Fox, a fox lives in a hole in the ground. Listen again, Foxes and Rabbits both live underground be cause they can do something special with their paws. They can use their paws to.. 1
D-I-G D-I-G Can you put those sounds together and make a word? Dig, they use their paws to dig. Song I wonder if you knew that one. I expect you can think of some other animals that live in the forest who have paws too. Today s song is about a bunny rabbit, join in and sing along with me; Did you ever see a bunny that hops SO SLOW? He hops and hops, and hops, and hops. Did you ever see a bunny that hops so slow? Did you ever see a bunny, that hops ON ONE FOOT He hops and hops, and hops, and hops, Did you ever see bunny that hops on one foot? Did you ever see a bunny, that hops SO FAST He hops and hops, and hops, and hops, Did you ever see bunny that hops so fast? Listen and play: It s rhyme time Here are two different rhymes the first is about some sleepy rabbits and the second is about a rather speedy fox. See the little bunnies sleeping till it s nearly noon Shall we go and wake them with a merry tune They re so still are they ill? Wake up little bunnies! Hop little bunnies hop hop hop! Hop little bunnies hop hop hop! 2
There once was a fox who ran very fast He always came first and was never last His paws would scurry as he raced along the ground And if anyone tried to catch him, he was never found. Listen and play: It s story time Story There are foxes and rabbits in our story today. One of the foxes thinks he s rather speedy like the fox in the rhythm and one of the rabbits like to make her friends laugh. Shhh listen, listen. The story is called Funny Bunny Once upon a playtime in the forest was a rabbit called Funny Bunny. Out of all the rabbits she was the fastest she was also the funniest and loved to make her friends laugh. Now Funny Bunny and her rabbit friends lived very near to some mean nasty foxes, they were always spoiling the rabbit s games or eating their food or stealing their toys. One day the rabbits decided to have a game of football so they set off for the clearing in the forest. But just as they got there the foxes arrived. Mm excuses me, we want to play in this clearing they said. No but we were here first said the rabbits. I ve got an idea said the biggest fox who was called superduper fast fox because he was so speedy. Mm let s have a race, three times around the forest whoever wins can play football in the clearing, ok? And of course the foxes choose super-duper fast fox as their champion runner. The rabbits choose Funny Bunny to race for them. On your marks, get ready, go! Off went Funny Bunny and super-duper fast fox. Funny Bunny hopped so fast that she was well in the lead she raced around the corner past her friends but then she thought of a really funny dance to do, so she stopped and showed it to her 3
friends. All the rabbits laughed. But just at that moment they heard the pitter patter of foxy paws it was super-duper fast fox and now he was catching up. The rabbits waved frantically. Funny Bunny hopped off and was soon back out in front of fox but just as she whizzed round the corner for the second time she thought of a really funny noise to make so she stopped again to make the noise for her friends. All the rabbits laughed! But just at that moment they heard the pitter patter of foxy paws it was super-duper fast fox he was catching up. The rabbits waved frantically. Once again Funny Bunny hopped of and was soon back in front again and this was the last part of the race but as she zoomed past her friends she thought of a really funny face to pull. So she stopped and showed it to her friends. All the rabbits fell about in laughter. They were rolling around on the ground with their fluffy tails in the air and their paws thumping. Then once again they heard the pitter patter of foxy paws it was super-duper fast fox he was catching up. The rabbits waved frantically. But super-duper fast fox was also there! All he had to do was over take Funny Bunny to win the race. Funny Bunny s friends waved even harder still and shouted But just as super-super fast fox was about to race past Funny Bunny he saw her face. 4
It was the funniest rabbit face fox had ever seen and he began to laugh. hahha hhaa So the rest of the foxes came over to see what was going on and when they saw Funny Bunny s face they began to laugh hysterically too. All the foxes and rabbits laughed together so much their sides hurt and their paws ached from clapping. The foxes invited the rabbits back to their holes for tea and they even asked Funny Bunny to do her funny noises and her funny dance again. Song As you listen to our last song can you count the rabbits on your fingers; THREE little rabbits went out to play One little rabbit hopped away. TWO little rabbits went out to play One little rabbit hopped away. ONE little rabbit went out to play That little rabbit decided to stay. The foxes and rabbits went out to play They played and they played till the end of the day! You might try to learn that song and sing it together later. Join me again soon where we can Listen and Play togeth er. Bye! 5