Pop Goes The Weasel

Music

Choose an instrument like rhythm sticks, wood block or body percussion like clapping hands. Play the song and every time you hear "pop" play your instrument.

Challenge - sing and play along to the instrumental version of the song.

Dance

Skip around the room being aware of your "own space bubble" and every time you hear "pop" jump up and down.

Science

Find out facts about a weasel.

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.