I Love Little Pussy

Music

Listen to the song. What is the meaning of the song? It 's about a person who is kind to a pet cat.

How do the words of the song make you feel? E.g. gentle, kind

Challenge - sing along to the instrumental version of the song using your 'sweet voices. '

Visual Art

Draw or paint a picture of a kitten or cat.

Dance

Explore the movements of a cat e.g. stretching, creeping, crawling, scurrying, pouncing etc.

Teacher plays a beat on a drum while children do their cat move. When the teacher changes the speed of the beat (tempo) the children do another cat move.

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.