Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone

Music

Voices can sing and voices can speak. When the class conductor raises their arms up high the children sing the words; when the conductor drops their arms down low, the children speak the words of the song.

Visual Art

Draw or paint a picture of a dog.

Dance

Explore the movements of a dog and ask children to describe the movements e.g. wagging tail, licking, pouncing, jumping etc. Pretend you are a dog and show the movements in your own "space bubble."

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.