Hot Cross Buns
Sing and Learn the Actions!
Lyrics
Hot cross buns,
hot cross buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons.
One a penny, two a penny,
hot cross buns!
Repeat
Activities
Music
- Listening to music is the central focus for learning. Ask children to close their eyes and listen to the song. What can they tell about the vocalist/singer? Is she very young? How does her voice sound?
- Sing along to the instrumental version using 'sweet sounding voices. '
Visual Art
- Draw or paint a hot cross bun.
Food Technology
- Bake hot cross buns.
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.
