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These colouring in sheets are great for practising listening to the initial sounds in words. Discuss the pictures with the children beforehand to ensure that they know what each thing is. This is also great for extending children’s vocabulary and introducing new words.
Wind the bobbin up with the kids - singing and doing the actions! Here is a cute printable of the song lyrics to remind you.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round ... and the words from this song might go round and round in your head too! Here's a fun printable to remind you of the lyrics.
The Grand Old Duke of York was one of my son's favourite "action songs". We marched up and down many hills! This illustrated printable provides the words.
This old favourite has simple actions for younger children. It can also be sung as a "round" song with 4 voices.
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands! This old children's favourite has simple actions which the kids will enjoy.
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes is a classic children's action song that never fails to please - and it gets the kids stretching too!
This lovely song is not only fun for its actions, but useful for its "counting down" too. A useful song for the early learning classroom!
This is always a favourite action song. Children lie "sleeping" quietly and love jumping UP and flip-flopping around!
There are 8 of our favourite action songs in this pack (also available separately), with illustrations that the kids will enjoy.
Use our colourful cards for a game of rhyming word Snap! Or a game of pairs, where the children must find rhyming pairs. The children need to be familiar with the rhyming word families before they can use them in a game – spend time looking at the pictures and talking about the pairs.
These colourful sheets (4 in the pack) make a great quick starter activity. You could show them to the children on the screen or print them out and laminate the pages so that the children can circle the odd one out using dry-wipe pens.
These colouring in sheets are great for practising rhyming sounds. There are 4 sheets in total in this pdf file. They could be used for more discussion around other words that the children can think of that rhyme.
Play a traditional game of dominoes with these printable dominoes cards, but instead of matching dots, match the words that rhyme. Fun for kids of all ages. You could laminate the cards if you like, or glue them onto rectangles of craft foam for a more substantial "tile".
This game encourages careful listening and helps children to develop their vocabulary and observational skills. It also incorporates maths skills as you can use number, shape and information about size to help with the descriptions.
You will need to gather up the musical instruments on the picture cards. Print the picture cards – you might want to laminate them if you are going to use them more than once. Set up a screen or a box so that the children cannot see which instrument you are using.
Encourage a small group of children to sit in a circle or facing the front so they can see you and the spelling robot. Have the picture cards ready. Sound out and blend the phonemes in the pictures.
Print out this lovely spelling robot and carefully cut out his "mouth" ready for posting cards through it. You could laminate the page for durability.
Make learning about music hands on fun with these playdough mats. Encourage the children to use different colours and to decorate their musical notes using beads, sequins or feathers.
Find out what sounds each instrument makes and then colour it in. Which one is your favourite?