TEN IN THE BED ( IRENE PÉREZ)

 I like the song "Ten in the bed" to work with 6-year-old children at the beginning of Year 1. It is an easy song with marked rhythm and musicality. It has simple grammatical structures and we can sing it accompanied by actions. There are many different videos on the Internet we can work with. I like the video in which ten little bears appear in a bed and at the end the little one says "I'm lonely" (with a sad face).

I would prepare a bed and ten bears for them to colour and cut out. They would perform the action while singing the song and at the end they would imitate the little bear's face and sad voice.
We can prepare a piece of theatre dividing the children into groups of 11 kids. We can make a paper headboard to be put on the wall or a pillow. Ten children would be laying on the floor and another one would be the storyteller. They could wear a sleeping hat.
We could also use the cuttings to do some oral activities. For instance, a child says how many bears were in the bed :"There were 5 bears" and the others have to perform it. They could count from one to ten and then from ten to one using the little bears.