Loo La Loo La

Music

Create a beat pattern e.g. tap your head, clap hands and tap your thighs.

Dance

Form a circle and create moves together e.g. hold hands out to the side and tap your neighbour's hands, link arms and sway, hold hands and jump up and down.

Drama

Children make up their own loo la; boo ba and too ta actions.

Work with a partner and mirror each other's actions.

Literacy

Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and hear it!"

Encourage children to make up their own nonsense words.

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.