Touch The Stars

Music

Hide the Star Game - Sing along to “Touch the Stars” while a leader holds up a cut-out star. When the leader shows the star the children sing out strongly with their voices, when the star is hidden behind the leaders back, the children ‘hide’ their voices in their head.

Dance

What is a locomotor move? A movement in which the body travels across space (running, creeping, rolling).What is a non-locomotor move? A movement in which the body remains anchored to one spot by a body part (bending, twisting, stretching) - what kinds of movements can you spot in the song?

Listen to “Touch the Stars” and ask children to suggest ideas for moves to go with each verse.

Children view the video song on YouTube and compare the actions with their own ideas.

Challenge - play the instrumental version of the song and match the moves.

Drama

Pretend you are “A Famous Star” use props, costumes, make up etc. and act out a ‘Star Role!’

Science

Discuss the fact that our sun is a star.

What is a star?

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.