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Early learning | Literacy | Halloween #nurseryrhymes
With opportunities to link to all areas of the #EYFS curriculum

Hubble, Bubble, use these rhymes
Have happy, fun
Word play times

RHYME 4 | Monday’s Bowl (Tune Monday’s Child)

RHYME 43 | Days Lighter, Nights Darker
(Rhythm 2nd & 4th & 6th & 8th lines rhyme)

RHYME 47 | Eat Apples and Oranges
(Rhythm 2nd & 4th & 6th & 8th lines rhyme)

PLANNING IDEAS
Use each rhyme for starter ideas linking to Communication and Language/Literacy/Personal Social and Emotional Development/Physical Development/Understanding the World/Expressive Arts and Design:

Creating a fun or spooky or anytime soup (Rhyme 4)
-share the rhyme/share new words/discuss night and day/act out the rhyme/use wacky voices/make healthy and silly soups/create soup pictures/model bowl and soup contents/link to counting, patterns, matching/link to sharing fairly

Getting creative with night and day activities (Rhyme 43)
-share the rhyme/share new words/discuss night and day and moon, stars and sun/act out the rhyme/model quiet voices and stillness for night time/make starry night pictures (could link to Van Gogh)/link to counting and patterns, draw or model night and day pictures/discuss the importance of sleep/use untuned instruments to create spooky loud/quiet sounds

Think about what we might eat at Halloween and everyday (Rhyme 47)
share the rhyme/share new words/discuss what we eat at Halloween for ‘Trick or Treat’/act out the rhyme/think about healthy eating choices/discuss treat and healthy foods/create & draw bowls of healthy and treat foods/link to counting whilst thinking about how many treats we think we should have/link to number and sharing/pairs/odd and even numbers/use untuned instruments and create sounds to match healthy and treat foods

These rhymes are taken from:
Wizzy’s Words | 70 #earlylearning rhymes for today | 0 to 5+ | Published by Troubador

To find out more about the story of Wizzy’s Words and the research it is based on visit www.wizzyswords.co.uk and/or https://wizzyswords.co.uk/blog/52/the-story-of-wizzys-words-book-of-rhymes-now-including-ael-freeresources/