Music

• The tone colour is the specific sound quality of a voice or instrument. Sounds can be made from wood, metal, skin, string, voices, and electronics. Play the song and listen to the sounds - can children recognize what sounds are used?

Dance

• What is a locomotor move? A movement in which the body travels across space (running, creeping, rolling). What is a non-locomotor move? A movement in which the body remains anchored to one spot by a body part (for example, bending, twisting, stretching). What kind of movements can you spot in the song?
• Drumming Fast and slow shapes - have the students change shapes each time they hear the drum beat. Vary the speed of the beat so that the shapes are held for longer or shorter times.

Health/Physical Education

• Why is it important to stretch our bodies for fitness and health?

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.