There Was A Crooked Man

Music
Listen to the song. Ask children does the sound of the music (colour tone is the specific sound quality of a voice or instrument) suit the meaning of the words? Ask children to create their own "crooked sounding" music by using found sounds or instruments.
Play the song again and children play their Òcrooked soundingÓ music.

Dance
Children can use their bodies to make crooked, curled, twisted, shapes. The teacher calls a shape and counts 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 freeze!

Visual Art
Draw or paint a picture featuring the crooked characters from the song.

Literacy
Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning ÒDo it, see it and hear it!Ó
Print out the song PDF
Read the song lyrics Ð 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. Ò Ó ! ? . ,
Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
Word study Ð phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.