Flea Fly
Children will love to sing and dance
along with this fun kid’s nursery rhyme song!
Lyrics
Flea.
Flea, Fly.
Flea, Fly, mosquito.
Oh, no, no, no, not mosquito.
Itchy, itchy, scratchy, scratchy.
Got a buggy down my backy.
Get that fly with a fly swat.
SPLAT!
Activities
Music
- Clap the echo to the rhythm of the song - keep up with the fast tempo towards the end of the song!
Drama
- Work with a partner. Choose a leader. The leader makes up moves to match the rhyme and the partner has to mirror the moves. Swap the leader.
Science
- Find out facts about flies and mosquitoes.
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.
