It's Raining, It's Pouring

Music
Create Environmental Percussion to match the sound of rain. These are found sounds that are made from anything in the natural or manmade environment. Use a cardboard roll, put small pebbles or some rice grains inside the roll, place aluminium tin foil on each end of the foil and secure with rubber bands. Tip your rain maker up and down along to the song.
Challenge - sing and play along to the instrumental version of the song.

Topic
What wet weather gear do you need if you want to play in the rain? e.g. raincoat, gumboots, umbrella

Drama
Work with a partner and mime "It 's Raining, it 's Pouring" as the story line.

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.