Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling

Music

Listen to the song - can you hear the glockenspiel? Find out what a glockenspiel is? Ask do you like the sound of a glockenspiel? What is the difference between a glockenspiel and a xylophone?

Topic

What is a dumpling?

Visual Art

Draw or paint a picture of "John" with one shoe off and one shoe on!

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.