Early learning #nurseryrhymes #literacy #number #UTW #farm |#EYFS #areasoflearning 10

Wizzy’s Words #earlylearning rhymes linking #UTW themes to the #eyfs areas of learning

Speaking and listening is the key starting point but each rhyme can also be used as a focus for each of the EYFS areas of learning.

10 | NURSERY RHYMES WITH A FARM THEME

The Great, Big, Bad, Old Fox 11
(Traditional tune – The Grand, Old Duke of York)

C & L | Listen, say, sing, add actions
PSED | Discuss visiting a farm and the animals you’ll see/Discuss importance of hand washing
PD | Link to outdoor literacy, act out actions for rhyme indoors/outdoors – Link A & D can we move like fox/hen?
LIT | Rhyming - Can we spot unfamiliar words? /Spot the sounds/words that sound the same?
MATHS | Link the number of hens in the rhyme to counting/subitising/pairing/odd & even & sharing
UTW | Link rhyme to everyday events – Talk about animals on a farm/Discuss where our foods come from/Discuss chicken/hen/eggs
A&D | Create/draw/model the scene from the rhyme with drawing/painting/construction resources – Why might a farmer not like foxes? Using untuned instruments create sounds for how the fox and hens move

Pretty, White Flower 17a (Traditional tune – Little Jack Horner)

C & L | Listen, say, sing, add actions
PSED | Discuss looking after ourselves and that flowers/plants may need to be looked after
PD | Link to outdoor literacy, act out rhyme indoors/outdoors – Can we move like a flower in the wind?
LIT | Rhyming - Can we spot unfamiliar words? /Spot the sounds/words that sound the same?
MATHS | Look at flower heads – count the petals - do they have odd or even numbers of petals – note the pattern – link to odd/even/pairs
UTW | Link rhyme to everyday events – Discuss the difference between wild flowers on the farm and cultivated flowers in the garden
A&D | Create/model pictures of flower heads – link to MATHS

Oh Numbers, Oh Numbers 69
(Rhythm - 2nd & 4th and 6th & 8th lines rhymes)

C & L | Listen, say, sing, add actions
PSED | Discuss singing and dancing and how it makes us feel/Discuss differences – Does everybody like singing/dancing? Do hens really dance?
PD | Link to outdoor literacy, act out rhyme indoors/outdoors – can we move like hens?
LIT | Rhyming - Can we spot unfamiliar words? /Spot the sounds/words that sound the same?
MATHS | Recap what a number is – count to 8/9/10/beyond - match number with counters/cubes – Why would a farmer put a number on his sheep?
UTW | Link rhyme to everyday events – Why does a farmer need hedges/gates? Name all the farm animals you know
A&D | Create pictures/models of a farm and/or its animals

From: Wizzy’s Words book of rhymes | 70 #earlylearning rhymes for today | Published by Troubador

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