Oranges And Lemons

Music
Listen to the music - what sound can you hear in the song? Bells
Play the song again and use sleigh bells to play along.
Challenge - sing and play along to the instrumental version of the song.

Dance
Two children form an arch (two children face each other, raise their arms over their head and clasp their partner 's hands). The other children skip under the arch. On the last word of the song the children forming the arch drop their arms to catch a child. The caught child swaps with one of the arch children.

Topic
Find out where this nursery rhyme originated from?

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.