Rain Medley

Music

Look at the White Dove Music Activity and then the You Can Squeeze an Orange Activity.

Children need to make a pile of the bits of their paper and place in front of them - ask children to stand up. Explain that once the music starts children can pick up their pile and throw the bits of paper or pretend raindrops over themselves, in time to the music. Children continue to pick up the raindrops and throw the raindrops over themselves.

When you hear the lyrics: ‘When it's Pouring Rain’ ask the children to jump onto the bits of paper and pretend the raindrops are puddles.

Resume back to collecting raindrops and throwing the raindrops over themselves.

When you hear the lyrics: ‘One Little Raindrop’ ask the children to pick up one rain drop and throw the raindrop up high just over themselves.

Resume back to collecting raindrops and throwing the raindrops over themselves.

For the last song Oh, Oh, Oh No don’t Let the Rain Come Down ask children to gather lots of raindrops, stand close in a huddle, you the teacher count down 4,3,2,1 and everyone throws the raindrops up high at the same time. Repeat until the end of the song.

Green, Green the Grass is Green song. Place a bin or large bag in the middle of the children. Explain how once the music starts the children can collect all the raindrops and place them in the bin. The aim is to gather all the raindrops before the song has finished. Children need to be aware of their own space when collecting the raindrops and to be careful of bumping into other children. If all the raindrops are gathered before the end of the song, children can form a circle, hold hands and dance around in a clock wise direction.

At the end of the song the children can bow and give themselves a big clap.

Dance

Brainstorm different types of rain e.g. drizzle, pouring, hail…what moves match the rain?

Science

Explore how every drop of rain is recycled.

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.