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.