Music

• The tempo is the speed of the beat. Listen to the song. Ask children does it sound as if the horse is galloping or trotting along? Trotting.
• Play a beat to match the speed of a horse walking; trotting and galloping. Teacher can use a drum, ruler on a desk, clap hands etc. Children guess if the horse is walking, trotting or galloping.
• Teacher plays the varying beats and children can move around the class according to the speed of the beat. If space is limited they can do the movements on the spot.

Topic

• In what way have horses been useful for people? E.g. ploughing fields; police horses; racing horses; horse and cart etc.

Visual Art

• Draw or paint a picture of a horse.

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.
• e-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.