Lyrics

Activities

Music

• Singing can help children to move creatively and builds their confidence.
• Listen to "Johnny Bear" and ask children to suggest ideas for actions to go with each verse.
• Children then view the video song on YouTube and compare the actions with their own ideas.
• Challenge - sing and dance along to the instrumental version.
• Have turns at performing the song in front of the class. At the end of the performance the performer takes a bow and the audience claps!

Visual Art

• Construct your teddy bear using materials e.g. card board roll, paper bag, glue, scissors, felt tip pens etc.

Drama

• Act out a scene with you and your 'teddy bear. '

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.