Yankee Doodle

Music

Listen to the song and ask what instruments can you hear? E.g. drum, piano, flute, trombone.

Play the song again and choose a found sound (tap the floor), body percussion (slap knees) or instrument.

Challenge - sing and play along to the instrumental version of the song.

Visual Art

Make your own hat and stick a feather on it.

Make your own drum - be creative with a stretched balloon and tin can or pot, use chopsticks or pencils as drum sticks.

Drama

Imaginary orchestra - choose an instrument from an orchestra and play your imaginary instrument along with the music.

Can others guess what instrument you are playing?

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.