Music

• Intro: When you hear the numbers show your fingers to count along.
• Children choose a percussion instrument or use a found sound e.g. tap the floor, plastic bottles with fillers like rice, small pebbles, lentils etc.
• The teacher uses a puppet, when the puppet is facing the children they play along to the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat) of the song; when the puppet is hidden behind the teacher’s back the children stop playing.

Maths

• Ask children to put their hands behind their back and say “show me three fingers?”
• Write the number 3
• Write the word – three
• Draw three objects

Dance

• Explore the movements of a bird and build a dance vocabulary e.g. flapping, flying, lightly, pecking etc.
• Optional – use dancing scarves.
• Teacher beats a drum or claps hand, children show a crab move, when the teacher changes the tempo (the speed of the beat) children change their bird move.
• Children need to be aware of their own ‘space bubble.’

Visual Art

• Ask children to close their eyes and imagine three birds. What do they like? Are they all the same? Are they big birds or little birds?
• Draw or paint three birds.

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.