Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Sing and Learn the Actions!
Lyrics
Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O!
And on that farm he had
some cows
E-I-E-I-O!
With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there,
Here a moo, there a moo,
Everywhere a moo-moo!
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O!
Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O!
And on that farm he had
some chickens
E-I-E-I-O!
With a chick-chick here, and a chick-chick there,
Here a chick, there a chick,
Everywhere a chick-chick!
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O!
Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O!
And on that farm he had
some pigs
E-I-E-I-O!
With an oink-oink here, and
an oink-oink there,
Here an oink, there an oink,
Everywhere an oink-oink!
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O!
Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O!
And on that farm he had
some sheep
E-I-E-I-O!
With a baa-baa here, and a
baa-baa there,
Here a baa, there a baa,
Everywhere a baa-baa!
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O!
Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O!
And on that farm he had
some horses
E-I-E-I-O!
With a neigh-neigh here,
and a neigh-neigh there,
Here a neigh, there a neigh,
Everywhere a neigh-neigh!
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O!
Activities
Music
- Listen to the song
- Ask children to identify the animals in the song.
- Play the song again and invite children to join in with the singing and to clap the rhythm pattern "e, i, e, i, o"
- Add different instruments or found sounds e.g. plastic bottles and fillers - rice, small stones etc. to represent the different animal sounds for each verse.
- View the video song of "Old MacDonald." Ask children what they think of the video song?
- Challenge - sing and play along to the instrumental version.
Science
- What is the function of different animals on the farm?
Visual Art
- Draw and cut out a favourite farm animal to create a class mural.
Dance
- Explore through dance how different animals move.
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.
