London Bridge Is Falling Down

Music
Divide children into 4 groups and allocate sound sources e.g. tambourines; slap knees; rhythm sticks; tap the floor with a pencil. A conductor chooses which group will play each verse. The conductor may choose every group to play for a verse, an individual group or a couple of groups to play. The conductor can use a pencil as a baton.
Watch a video clip of a conductor conducting an orchestra.

Topic
What is the purpose of a bridge?

Dance
Create a "London Bridge" dance that involves all the children. What ideas do the children have?
Dance game - two children form an arch (two children face each other, raise their arms over their head and clasp their partner 's hands). The other children skip under the arch. On the last word of the song the children forming the arch drop their arms to catch a child. The caught child swaps with one of the arch children.

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.