Early learning #nurseryrhymes #literacy #eyfs #seasons | Wizzy’s Words

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

RHYME 13 | Oh Puddle, Puddle! (Tune – Hey Diddle Diddle)
RHYME 60 | We’re Washing and Dressing (Rhythm 2nd and 4th and 6th and 8th lines rhyme)
RHYME 29 | It’s Snowing and Cold (Tune – The North Wind Doth Blow)

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:

LINKING EARLY LITERACY/PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT/KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING/SENSORY AND MESSY PLAY/EARLY MATHS (Rhyme 13)
-share the rhyme/share new words/discuss weather and seasons/ model actions for the weather/act out the rhyme indoors and outdoors/ use different voices & actions for types of weather/link to PSHE and key questions about keeping warm & dry/create weather pictures/link to counting and patterns, for example the sounds from ‘splishy, splash, splosh’

** LINKING EARLY LITERACY/PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT/KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING/SENSORY AND MESSY PLAY/EARLY MATHS ** (Rhyme 60)
-share the rhyme/share new words/discuss why we wash and dress/model actions for washing/dressing/singing/hearing etc /act out the rhyme indoors and outdoors/change voices for cheeping and chirping/make a class bird table with loose parts/talk about garden birds/create bird pictures/link to PSHE and key questions about keeping warm outdoors/link to counting (do an outdoors bird count), patterns (make/paint birds wings with a repeating pattern)

** LINKING EARLY LITERACY/PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT/KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING/SENSORY AND MESSY PLAY/EARLY MATHS** (Rhyme 29)
-share the rhyme/share new words/discuss why we need to keep warm and how we dress for the season/model actions for how our bodies react to the cold/act out the rhyme indoors and outdoors/change voices for feeling warm and cold/make a class artificial snow table with loose parts and with the children’s ideas/talk about what animals do to keep warm in autumn and winter/create snow pictures with paints and chalks/link to PSHE and key questions about keeping warm outdoors/link to counting (make and count snowflakes), patterns (make simple snowflakes pictures with a repeating pattern)

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

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