My Bear Is Cuddly

Music
Dynamics is the varying levels of loudness or softness. Use a puppet or teddy bear flash card (draw a teddy bear on card board) to indicate to children when to sing loudly and when to sing softly. When the puppet or the flash card hides behind your back children sing softly and when the puppet or flash card faces the children they sing loudly.
Play "My Bear is Cuddly" and children sing along as according to the puppet or flash card.
View the video song of the children performing "My Bear is Cuddly."

Visual Art
Teddy Bear stick puppet. Draw a small Teddy Bear on card board and cut out. Stick your teddy bear on an ice cream stick.

Dance
Pretend you are a Teddy Bear. Are you bouncy, heavy, light, big, little, slow, fast
Create your own 'teddy bear' moves.
View "Teddy Bear Medley" and "Dum Dee Diddle Dee" and watch how 'Big Ted' moves.

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.