The Statue Song

Music

Let different children experiment with conducting the class - raise arms for loud sounds and lower arms for soft sounds and pause music to stop playing. The rest of the class can make sounds with voices, found sounds e.g. tapping the desk, body percussion or instruments.

Dance

Dance freely to the music. Teacher stops the music randomly - children have to 'freeze ' their move. If anyone is caught moving they are 'out ', every child who is out can help the teacher be a judge.

Drama

You are a statue that comes alive!

Visual Art

Create your own 'statue ' out of play dough or clay.

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.