Country Jive
Children will love to sing and dance
along with this fun fitness song!
Lyrics
"Y'all side step now! Ready 4 3 2 1"
It's the country jive 4 3 2 1
Y'all feel alive 4 3 2 1
It's a lot of fun 4 3 2 1
Son of a gun 4 3 2 1
4 3 2 1, 4 3 2 1
"Y'all heel dig now! Ready 4 3 2 1"
Thumbs in your braces 4 3 2 1
Do up your laces 4 3 2 1
Fit as a fiddle 4 3 2 1
Now don't giggle 4 3 2 1
4 3 2 1, 4 3 2 1
"Y'all lasso now! Ready 4 3 2 1"
Right hand round 4 3 2 1
Left hand round 4 3 2 1
At the rodeo 4 3 2 1
Way to go 4 3 2 1
4 3 2 1, 4 3 2 1
"Y'all do it again!"
Repeat
"See y'all later!"
Activities
Music
- Listen to 'Country Jive' discuss the style of music? Country Music. Play other styles of music for children to listen to e.g. Rock and Roll, Hip Hop, Rap etc.
Maths
- Give the children 4 styles of music to listen to, then ask which style they like the best? List the songs and make a graph to find out the overall class favourite style of music.
Dance
- Leading body parts - move through the space leading the movement with body part specified by the teacher e.g. lead with your right elbow, lead with your thumb, right hand, left hand.
- Listen to “Country Jive” and ask children to suggest ideas for actions to go with each verse.
- Children then view the video song on YouTube and compare the actions with their own ideas.
Drama
- Select a prop or costume that might be part of a rodeo setting and assume a role!
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.
