Waddley Archer

Music

Listen to the song. Many of the words are non-sense words like Waddley archer and Doodley Doo – can you find silly instruments to play along with the song like a kazoo, slide whistle, guiro or make your own silly instrument like a rubber band guitar.

Drama

Create your own silly moves to act out the words of the song.

Dance

Use scarves to dance to the song – make squiggly, flowing, circle, up and down shapes in time to the music.

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.