Gus The Hippo

Music:
Listen to the song. Make a rhythm pattern using the rhyming words e.g. Gus, bus, fuss, hippopotamus; or street, meet, feet, neat
Chant and clap the words rhythm patterns.

Maths
How do you travel to school?
Create a list of the different ways children get to school; walk, bus, car, bike etc.
Sort into groups and make a bar graph.

Visual Art
View the video song of "Gus the Hippo."
Draw or paint a scene from the video song.

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.