Wheels Come Alive (Turning Wheels)
Children will love to sing and dance along with this fun transport song!
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Wheels Come Alive (Turning Wheels) Lyrics
Have a look around,
so many wheels abound.
Wheels keep turning, wheels keep turning,
round and around and around!
Big wheels, small wheels, tiny cute wheels.
Wide wheels, thin wheels, colourful wheels.
Wheels to get us off the ground,
wheels keep turning round and round,
round and round like a merry-go round!
Have a look around,
so many wheels abound.
Wheels keep turning, wheels keep turning,
round and around and around!
Tall wheels, small wheels, quiet little wheels.
Hard wheels, soft wheels, noisy, loud wheels.
Wheels that sing and dance and jive.
Wheels that make the world come ALIVE!
Round and round like a merry-go round.
Have a look around,
so many wheels abound.
Wheels keep turning, wheels keep turning,
round and around and around!
Wheels that sing and dance and jive.
Wheels that make the world come ALIVE!
Round and round like a merry-go round!
Have a look around,
so many wheels abound.
Wheels keep turning, wheels keep turning,
round and around and around!
Big ones, small ones, tiny ones too.
Wheels turning round and round!
Wheels Come Alive (Turning Wheels) Learning Activities
Music
- Choose an untuned percussion instrument that you can play and dance along with. Play along to the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat) of the music and dance and turnaround while you play! Be aware of your own “space bubble”.
- Alternatively sing and clap hands!
Dance
- Move your body into the shapes of the wheels. E.g. big, small, tiny, wide. Discuss the shapes children are going to form.
Science
- Find out facts about the “history of the wheel”.
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.
