With these materials your child can:

			practise the names of bugs in English
			learn the names of an insect's body parts in English
			learn facts about insects and bugs, including where they live and life cycles
			practise words related to bugs and insects eg hive, larva
			learn about malaria and quinine
			listen to a traditional children's song

The materials are useful for your child's general education. They may be studying insects and habitats in their school science programmes.

There are also craft materials for very young learners (age 7 and under). Your young child can make a spider mobile or make their own insect habitat.

Incy Wincy is a traditional children's song. It is suitable for pre-school children and children in early primary. You can find the song here:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-incy-wincy.htm

There is game you can play before you listen to the song. It's a good way to introduce words from the song. Click on the 'start game' button. Children left click and move the mouse to clear the window. They'll start to see a picture. How quickly cna they clean the window?

Now talk about the picture. What can you see? Introduce 'spider' and 'water spout' in English. Say the spider is called 'Incy Wincy'. You can introduce these words in English but can discuss the picture in your own language if your child doesn't speak much English. Ask your child: What's the spider going to do? What's a water spout? What comes down it?

Now click the button 'start song'. Listen to the song and watch the actions. Listen to the song again, and start to sing along.

This is an easy song to learn and you and your child can sing it whenever you like. There are actions you can do as you sing the song:

• Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the waterspout… The children interlock their thumbs, leaving 4 fingers on each hand to represent the spider’s legs scuttling up the spout, or simply wiggle the fingers on their right hand all the way up their left arm. Alternatively, the children put their left thumb on the tip of their right forefinger, then their right thumb on the tip of their left forefinger. They move their thumbs and forefingers in turn as the spider climbs up the spout.
• Down came the rain… Now the children raise both their arms and wiggle their fingers to represent the rain.
• and washed poor Incy out… The children throw down their arms, or run their fingers quickly back down their arm.
• Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain… Children make a big circle with their arms to represent the sun.
• And Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the spout again… The children repeat the first action.

Finally there is a worksheet for the song that you can print and do with your child, or you can print the lyrics:
Print activity (160KB)
Print lyrics (407KB)

There are more tips and suggestions for using Incy Wincy with your child and learners on this sheet:
Download and print tips for using the song with your child (150KB).