The Zebra Song
Sing and Learn the Actions!
Lyrics
The grasslands of Africa, is their home.
In their herds the zebras love to roam.
Every zebra is black and white.
And each zebra, has it’s own pattern of stripes.
Africa is their home.
In their herds the zebras love to roam.
Africa is their home.
In their herds the zebras love to roam.
Activities
Music
- Ask children to lie down and close their eyes. Play the song and children listen.
- Tone colour or timbre is the specific sound quality of a voice or instrument. Ask children to describe the song in terms of music, sound effects and the voice of the singer.
- Children then view the video song on YouTube – does the song match the words and the feeling of the song?
Social Studies
- Every Zebra has its own pattern of stripes, no Zebras are the same! Look around in the class room – are other children the same as you?
Visual Art
- Create your own Zebra with its own pattern of stripes.
Maths
- Make an estimate on how many stripes are on your Zebra then do an actual count.
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.
