Music

• Singing help to build language and memory skills, it’s also FUN!
• Children listen to “Rat a Tat Tat.”
• Choose a child to take the lead part and the rest of the class takes the group part
• Choose children to create and make the sound effects.

Visual Art

• Use paper plate, material, pipe cleaners, buttons, felt tip pens or paint to create a cat.

Dance

• Explore the movements of a cat e.g. stretching, creeping, crawling, scurrying, pouncing etc.
• Teacher plays a beat on a drum (or claps hands) while children do their cat move. When the teacher changes the speed of the beat (tempo) the children do another cat 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.