Five Cup Cakes Lyrics
Five cup cakes in the baker's shop,
round and fat with a lolly on the top.
Along came ___________ with a dollar one day.
Bought a cup cake and ate it right away!
Four cup cakes in the baker's shop . . .
Three cup cakes in the baker's shop . . .
Two cup cakes in the baker's shop . . .
One cup cake in the baker's shop . . .
No cup cakes in the baker's shop,
nothing round and fat with a lolly on the top.
"Oh dear!" said the baker with the empty tray.
"I'll have to make some more" and she did it right away.
Five Cup Cakes Learning Activities
Music
- Choose 5 children's names, chant and clap the rhythm pattern of each name e.g. Jeremy is three claps XXX - visually display on a white board.
- Play the song and include the children's names in the song "Along came Jeremy with a dollar one day"
Visual Art
- Draw or paint a picture of 5 cup-cakes.
Maths
- Ask questions like if I had 5 cup-cakes and ate two cup-cakes how many cupcakes would I have left?
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.
