Learning Intentions:
- To find out about farm animals.
- To be able to join in with a song through singing and moving.
- To be able to move in different ways.
Step 1: Activity overview for parent, carers and pupils
In this activity there is a story/song about different farm animals and things you can do on a farm.The story/song encourages singing and movement.
The main activities can be completed offline and on different days.
Step 2: Introduction to the activity and additional information
To the tune of ‘The Farmers in the Den’ learn the song story and join in when you can. Below is the song story. Have fun practising the song with an adult
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Sing the song story again including and creating movements for each farm animal.
- Can you use a range of tall and small movements?
- Can you use balancing, jumping, hopping or skipping movements?
- Can you teach your movements to your family?
Step 3: Tasks to carry out for this activity
Activity 1
Learn the song story with a grown up.
- What animals are in the story?
- What did the children do on the farm?
- What different actions can you add for each animal? (galloping for a horse, waddling for a duck)
- With the music perform the song story with your actions.
Activity 2
Junk model farm animals
Oh no! The farmer’s animals have escaped. Can you create a farm animal model using different materials?
Your model can be made using:
- recyclable/ natural materials (milk cartons, yoghurt pots, carboard etc.)
- pens, crayons, coloured pencils or paint to draw or paint patterns
- coloured paper.
Activity 3
Musical instruments
Make your own musical instruments to create the sound each animal makes. You can make your instrument using recyclable materials. e.g. plastic bottle shakers with dried pasta or peas etc.
Have fun performing the song again with your animal actions and the instruments to recreate the animal noises.
Once you have completed the task you can email anything you create (photos, documents, screenshots etc.) directly to your teacher or directly upload it to any of the available places in Step 5.
Step 4: Look over the success criteria for this activity:
Success criteria #1: I know about farm animals.
Success criteria #2: I can sing and make up actions to words.
Success criteria #3: I can move in different ways.
Look at the learning intentions ‘how well do you think you have done?’
Step 5: Upload your work
Click on the relevant link below if you have any work to upload to your online areas J2e Google Drive OneDrive Seesaw