I Had A Little Nut Tree

Music
Singing and dancing together helps to build social skills. Children hold hands to form a circle and skip in time to the beat of the song in an anti-clock wise direction.

Visual Art
Paint or draw "A Little Nut Tree"

Drama
Retell and act the main events of the story in order.

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.