Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Music
Listen to the song
Ask children to identify the animals in the song.
Play the song again and invite children to join in with the singing and to clap the rhythm pattern "e, i, e, i, o"
Add different instruments or found sounds e.g. plastic bottles and fillers - rice, small stones etc. to represent the different animal sounds for each verse.
View the video song of "Old MacDonald." Ask children what they think of the video song?
Challenge - sing and play along to the instrumental version.
Science
What is the function of different animals on the farm?

Visual Art
Draw and cut out a favourite farm animal to create a class mural.

Dance
Explore through dance how different animals move.

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.