Early learning #nurseryrhymes #literacy #number #UTW #dayandnight |#EYFS #areasoflearning 8B

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.

8B | NURSERY RHYMES WITH A DAY AND NIGHT THEME

We’re Washing and Dressing 60
(Rhythm - 2nd & 4th and 6th & 8th lines rhymes)

C & L | Listen, say, sing, add actions
PSED | Discuss getting ready to go out on a warm night/cold night – What would you wear?
PD | Link to outdoor literacy, act out actions for rhyme indoors/outdoors
LIT | Rhyming - Can we spot unfamiliar words? /Spot the sounds/words that sound the same?
MATHS | Link to PSED - Use cut out boots and gloves to model odd & even
UTW | Link rhyme to everyday events – Discuss when we will hear birdsong/share some bird sounds
A&D | Create pictures/models/simple recording of bird song – use simple notation and untuned instruments to create repeating patterns of bird sounds/song

On Trainers, Off Trainers 63
(Rhythm - 2nd & 4th and 6th & 8th lines rhymes)

C & L | Listen, say, sing, add actions
PSED | Discuss bedtime routines & and how we feel if we have too little sleep
PD | Link to outdoor literacy, act out rhyme indoors/outdoors
LIT | Rhyming - Can we spot unfamiliar words? /Spot the sounds/words that sound the same?
MATHS | Using clock resources/making own clocks – link to telling the time – hour/half hour
UTW | Link rhyme to everyday events – Link to MATHS – talk about night/day hours – 24 hours in day – 12 night/day
A&D | Create pictures/models of what we will be doing at 7am in the morning & 7pm at night

It’s Seven, It’s Seven 64
(Rhythm - 2nd & 4th and 6th & 8th lines rhymes)

C & L | Listen, say, sing, add actions
PSED | Discuss morning routines – washing/dressing/tooth brushing/eating and the order we do things in
PD | Link to outdoor literacy, act out rhyme indoors/outdoors
LIT | Rhyming - Can we spot unfamiliar words? /Spot the sounds/words that sound the same?
MATHS | Using clock resources/making own clocks – link to telling the time – hour/half hour
UTW | Link rhyme to everyday events – Discuss importance of being on time – What would happen if we all turned up at school at 10 o’clock?
A&D | Create pictures/models of morning routines – use untuned instruments to make a sound for each part of the routine i.e. getting up (short, sharp sound)/dressing (long, drawn out sound)/tooth brushing (up & down sound)/eating (crunching sound) and put the sounds together

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

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