Cruisin’ Down The Freeway
Children will love to sing and dance
along with this fun fitness song!
Lyrics
"4 3 2 1"
Cruisin' down the freeway,
in a pink Cadillac.
Music turned up loud,
in a pink Cadillac.
Oh, how I wish,
I was doin' just that!
"4 3 2 1"
Speedin' round the race track,
on a big black Harley.
Revvin' up the engine,
on a big black Harley.
Oh, how I wish, I was doin' just that!
"4 3 2 1"
Jumpin' over surfin' waves,
on a real fast jet ski.
Makin' lots of noise,
on a real fast jet ski.
Oh, how I wish, I was doin' just that!
All these things are cool but
while I am at school.
I'll just have to daydreamabout
doin' just that!
All these things are cool but
while I am at school.
I'll just have to daydream about
doin' just that!
Activities
Music
- Introduce rhythm symbols to match the "4-3-2-1" rhythm pattern e.g. # # # #. Draw the rhythm symbols on the white board. Play the song and every time you hear "4-3-2-1" point to the rhythm symbols in time to the beat.
Maths
- Children create their own 4 beat rhythm symbols by choosing a geometric shape e.g. circle, square, triangle, rectangle.
Dance
- Listen to "Cruisin' Down the Freeway" and ask children to suggest ideas for moves to go with each verse.
- Children view the video song on YouTube and compare the moves with their own ideas.
- Challenge - play the instrumental version and match the moves!
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.
