Blue Overalls

Music

Fill 4 glasses with different quantities of water. Add blue dye or food colour to each of the glasses.

Order the glasses from high to low sounds.

Play the song and use a pencil to tap the glasses in time to the beat (steady pulse) or rhythm (the short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat). Try and match the pitch (the degree of highness or lowness of a note) of the song.

Visual Art

What is blue? E.g. the sky, blueberries

Draw, paint or make a blue collage.

Drama

Sometimes we feel blue - which means you feel sad or unhappy.

Mime a scene which makes you feel sad or unhappy for others to guess.

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. " " ! ? . ,t 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.