L Leaves – Leaves Song
Learn the letter L the fun way!
It's easy when you link the letter with a sound, word, matching picture and sing along song!
How many times can you spot the letter L?
Lyrics
Three cool leaves were singing "hey, hey"
and grooving about on the trees one day.
The wind came howling through the town
and one cool leaf came a-tumbling down.
Two cool leaves were singing "hey, hey"
and grooving about on the trees one day.
The wind came howling through the town
and one cool leaf came a-tumbling down.
One cool leaf was singing "hey, hey"
and grooving about on the trees one day.
The wind came howling through the town and
that one cool leaf came a-tumbling down.
What became of the leaves?
I cannot say but perhaps they're still singing
and groovin in leaf heaven today!
Activities
Achievement Objective: we are learning the letter name and sound of the letter l
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. " " ! ? . ,
Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
- Grooving
- Howling
- Tumbling
Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
Word study - phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming words;
- Verbs - grooving, tumbling, howling, singing
- Letter clusters "thr"
- Word ending "ing"
- Rhyming words - town, down
- Compound word - cannot
- Contractions they're = they are
Sing and read along to the L Leaves Love to Sing YouTube Song
Activity
- Print out the song PDF and highlight all letter 'l 's in the text - count how many you have highlighted!
- Draw 3 objects starting with the letter l
- Create movements for the verbs "grooving, tumbling, howling"
- Re-tell the song/poem using drama
