Baa Baa Black Sheep

Personal Social and Emotional

Ask if children have heard the nursery rhyme ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’. Discuss during circle time where we can find sheep, for example on a farm or in the wild. Encourage children to share experiences visiting farms and interacting with sheep or whether they have fed any lambs.

Communication and Language

Sing the nursery rhyme together and in small groups to encourage the children to identify the words and understand the meaning of the rhyme by using musical instruments and actions to sound out the words.

Physical Development

 Encourage children to use construction toys to build a fence to keep toy sheep safe in their field. Use cotton wool and googly eyes to make our own sheep.

Literacy

Use props, pictures, and puppets to retell the rhyme. Read ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ together and encourage children to share any other books about sheep they have read.

Mathematics

 Hide a variety of numbers around the setting and encourage children to find numbers 1-3 and put them in order. Count how many cotton wool balls you can fit in a bag.

Understanding the World

Discuss what sheep give to us for example wool or cheese and identify the name for a baby sheep and how they are important around Springtime. Ask children if they have heard of counting sheep before going to sleep.

Expressive Art and Design

Provide costumes and role-play masks to dress up as characters from the story and act out the rhyme.  Encourage children dip their hands into black and white paint and print on to large green paper. Add eyes and cotton wool to create handprint sheep in a field.

Focused Vocabulary

Sheep, Black, Farm, Lamb, Wool, Master