Music

• Listen to the song. Ask children if they can whistle?
• Play the song again and ask children to whistle along to the "kettle whistle sound" in the song.
• Find "whistle sound sources" e.g. blow up a balloon half way, pinch the sides and let the air escape; steam train whistle; use a thick blade of grass - split down the middle and blow through. Let us know what other "whistle sound sources" you can find?

Science

• Find out why kettles whistle?

Dance

• Children choose a word to describe the movement of steam e.g. rise, evaporate, hot etc. and practice different ways of dancing these moves individually and in groups.

Literacy

• Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and hear it!"

Print out the song PDF

• Read the song lyrics - ask children a variety of questions.
• Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
• Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. " " ! ? . ,
• Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
• Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
• Word study - phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.