Ring-a-Ring-O' Roses

Music

Play along with the beat! Divide children into five groups and issue a set of instruments to each group, e.g. drums, maracas, triangles, rhythm sticks. Alternatively body percussion can be used e.g. clapping hands, slapping knees, tapping toes, clicking fingers. Allocate one verse to each of the groups; everyone plays together on the chorus.

Dance

Children hold hands in a circle and dance around in a clock wise direction. When you hear the words - "we all fall down"- children fall down. When you hear "we all jump up" jump up.

Visual Art

Create a rose collage using different materials.

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.