Music

• Feel the beat (the steady pulse). Children choose a percussion instrument or a body percussion sound e.g. slap knees, clap hands to play along to the beat of the song.

Drama

• Use props, face paint or make up to turn yourself into a clown.

Dance

• Children join hands in a circle and dance in a clockwise direction. A “Punchinello” in the middle of the circle chooses what actions to do for children to copy; Punchinello then closes eyes, points a finger, turns around until the end of the verse to choose another “Punchinello”. Keep repeating the song as many times as you like.
• Children view the video song on YouTube and compare the actions with their own ideas.

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.