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Attention March

Beat/Rhythm

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Children will love to sing and dance along with this fun fitness song! Do you know your left and right? Can you hop and march?

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Attention March Lyrics

Attention! Company fall in! 4 3 2 1, forward march

Left right, left right, left right, left right x 2
Company halt! About face! 4 3 2 1, forward march!
Left right, left right, left right, left right x 2
Company halt! Now march on the spot!

Attention! 4 3 2 1, double hops

*We're the troops from Timbuktu
We're a fine and dandy crew
Love to sing and march its true
Bein' fit is good for you X2

Attention! Double time 4 3 2 1, forward march

Left right, left right, left right, left right X2
Company halt! About face! 4 3 2 1, forward march!
Left right, left right, left right, left right X2
Company halt! Now march on the spot!

Repeat *

Attention!
Salute!
At ease!
Fall out!

Attention March Learning Activities

Music

  • Dynamics is the varying levels of loudness or softness. Children march around the room in time to the beat. When the teacher turns the volume down low the children tiptoe softly and when the teacher turns the volume up the children stamp loudly.
  • Let different children have a turn at controlling the volume.

Health

  • Discuss why being fit is good for you?

Dance

  • Ask children to create the moves to match the words of the song.
  • Children then view the video song on YouTube and compare the actions with their own ideas.
  • Create a dance vocabulary listing different dance pathways e.g. left, right, straight, zig zag, curved, diagonal

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.
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