Music

• Singing and listening is a central focus for learning music.
• “Find your animal family” Choose 4 animal sounds and delegate evenly to children e.g. pig, horse, cow, sheep. Say “go” - children move around freely voicing their animal sound and trying to find others with the same sound until they have found their family group.
• Play the song and sing along.
• Choose soloists for the verses and the rest of the group can sing the chorus. Sing and perform the song to the instrumental version.

Science

• What special physical attribute does each animal have in the song? E.g. a giraffe has a long neck.
• View the video song of We’re Going to the Zoo and check out each animal.

Visual Art

• Create props to use along with performing the song e.g. masks, animal hats etc.

Literacy

• Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning “Do it, see it and hear it!”

Print out the song PDF

• Read the song lyrics – ask children a variety of questions.
• Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
• Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. “ ” ! ? . ,
• Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
• Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
• Word study – phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.