Music

• Explore ways to use body percussion e.g. clapping hands; slapping knees; tapping chest etc.
• Divide the children into two groups. Each group chooses their ‘body percussion sound.’
• Play the song – one group plays to the beat (steady pulse) of the song and the other group plays to the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat) of the song.

Drama

• Use an imaginary instrument in an orchestra and mime the actions for others to guess e.g. drums, violin, flute etc.

Visual Art

• Draw or paint your favourite instrument in an orchestra.

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."