Where Is Thumbkin?

Music

Children can develop fine motor skills through singing games. Use your fingers to show the actions to the song. Place hands behind your back. Bring out your right thumb; bring out your left thumb. Face thumbs together, wriggle your right thumb, wriggle your left thumb. Place your right thumb behind your back, place your left thumb behind your back. Use appropriate fingers to show the actions.

Drama

Role play the song - choose 5 children to play each character.

Visual Art

Class "hand mural" - on a large sheet of paper have each child outline the shape of their hand using a felt tip pen.

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.