Music

• Listen to the song. Can you find the repeated music pattern in each verse?
• When you hear a-hum, a-hum - play an untuned percussion instrument or use body percussion e.g. clap hands, in time to the music.

Visual Art

• Create a mural of the scene of the song. E.g. sun, apple tree, Miss Mousey, frog etc.
  Technology
• Make silly instruments to play along with the song e.g. folded paper to hum through, curl up your hand to sing through, use a comb to scratch along card board, rubber band guitar etc.

Dance

• Build a vocabulary around the movements of a frog e.g. jumping, crouching, hopping, swimming, snapping etc. Build a vocabulary around the movements of a mouse e.g. scampering, scuttling, nibbling etc.
• When children hear a high pitch sound children move like a mouse, when children hear a low pitch sound children move like a frog. Teachers can use a xylophone or their voice to create the high or low pitch sound.

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.