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NURSERY RHYMES FOR EXPLORING THE NATURAL WORLD

WEATHER & SEASONS | Rain, Snow, Ice, Sun | Rhymes 7, 14, 20, 22, 29
LIGHT & DARK | Rhyme 43

With a focus on hearing language in order to develop speaking and listening and then linking in to all areas of the #EYFS curriculum

Rhymes and their content
Can be used every day
To bring learning to life
In so many ways

WIZZY’S WORDS RHYMES PRESENTED HERE
(with accompanying resources)

R7 Rain, Rain, Go Away (Traditional tune – Rain, Rain, Go Away)
Resource sheet

R13 Oh Puddle, Puddle (Traditional tune – Hey Diddle Diddle)
Sheet and video

R20 Wizzy Put Your Jacket on (Traditional tune – Polly Put the Kettle On)
Sheet and video

R22 ‘Thanks’ Say the Flowers! (Traditional tune – Pop Goes the Weasel)
Sheet and video

R29 It’s Snowing and Cold (Traditional tune – The North Wind Doth Blow)
Sheet and video

R43 Days Lighter, Nights Darker (Rhythm pattern 2nd & 4th and 6th & 8th lines rhymes)
Sheet and video

PLANNING IDEAS
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE | Listen to a rhyme/Say the rhyme together/Make the sound effects/Say the words/Look out for phoneme sounds that the children know whilst focusing on the rhythm of the words and presenting appropriate new phoneme sounds/Discuss features of the natural world and its vocabulary
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Discuss keeping warm, keeping dry
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT | Add actions to the rhymes and link to indoor and outdoor movement and the importance of being active
LITERACY | Rhyming - Can we hear/spot the words that sound the same? Model rhyming strings for weather/seasons/night and day
MATHEMATICS | How many? Can we count the rain drops? Discuss the shape of raindrops/clouds… Use subitising to create patterns for raindrops with cubes/counters…
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD | Link the rhyme to everyday events such as holding an umbrella/wearing a coat/Discuss why even when it’s cold we can’t stay indoors all year!? Discuss the differences in the weather and between night and day | Use a shoe box and a torch to create a dark box to look at objects in the light and then the dark
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN | Use the themes from the rhymes to create pictures with a natural world theme e.g. black paper and chalk to create night pictures/Contrasting night time and day time pictures/ Rainy- & sunny-day pictures | Use Playdoh to model the weather

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/

Link for all Wizzy’s Words AEL #freeresources on Times Ed Resources https://www.tes.com/member/Jaxxie

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