Five Crabs – Count to the Number 5
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Learn all about the number five with 5 crabs.
Lyrics
1 2 3 4 5
Numbers 1 to 10 Gus would love to teach,
while he's having fun playing at the beach.
High five and do a little jive,
'cause ready it's the groovy number five!
Five crabs playing together in the sand.
Gus thinks the five crabs are in a band!
Especially when they click
their claws in time.
He wonders if they're playing a
nursery rhyme!
One, two, three, four, five crabs play
on a lovely warm summers day.
Five crabs playing together in the sand.
Gus thinks the five crabs are in a band!
Activities
Music
- Intro: When you hear the numbers show your fingers to count along.
- Divide children into groups of 5. Each member of the band chooses an instrument (rhythm sticks, maracas etc.) body percussion sound (slap knees, click fingers, clap hands etc.) or use a found sound (tap the floor, plastic bottles with fillers like rice, small pebbles, lentils etc.)
- Play the song and play along to the beat (a steady pulse) or the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat).
Maths
- Ask children to put their hands behind their back and say "show me five fingers?"
- Write the number 5
- Write the word - five
- Draw five objects
Dance
- Explore the movements of a crab and build a dance vocabulary e.g. scuttling, clicking, snapping, scurrying, digging, and nipping etc.
- Teacher beats a drum or claps hand, children show a crab move, when the teacher changes the tempo (the speed of the beat) children change their crab move.
- Children need to be aware of their own 'space bubble.'
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.
