Mary Mary Quite Contrary

Music
Pitch is the degree of highness or lowness of a note. Sing along to the song and ask children to raise their arms when the melody goes up and to lower their arms when the melody goes down.

Visual Art
Draw or paint a picture of what grows in your garden. Create your own imaginary garden!

Maths
What is the most popular flower? Make a list of what each child's favourite flower is? Make a class graph and find out what is the favourite flower?

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.