Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

Music

Listen to the song and learn the words. With a partner have turns at singing the different parts e.g. the person who asks the question and the person who answers the question.

Drama

Create your own "cat scene" - can others guess what the cat is doing? E.g. drinking milk, stretching, licking itself clean etc.

Dance

Build a cat movement vocabulary e.g. stretching, pouncing, creeping, stalking, pouncing, playing, running etc.

Teacher plays an appropriate tempo on a drum (or taps a desk) to match the move and calls out "stretching" - slow beat; "stalking" - slow beat gradually increase the speed of the beat and say "pounce"; "running" - fast beat etc.

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.