To Market To Market
Sing and Learn the Actions!
Lyrics
To market, to market,
To buy a fat pig.
Home again, home again
Jiggety-jig!
To market, to market,
To buy a fat hog.
Home again, home again
Jiggety-jog!
Activities
Music
- Partner up with a friend. Play the song and pat each other’s hands in time to the beat (the steady pulse) of the song.
- Play the song again and pat each other’s hands in time to the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat) of the song.
- Use dynamics as variety e.g. tap each other’s hands loudly or softly.
Visual Art
- Draw or paint a picture of a pig.
Drama
- You wake up and find out you are a pig... tell your story and act it out!
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.
