{"id":842,"date":"2026-03-10T14:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/?p=842"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:29:58","slug":"the-gruffalo-song-world-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/2026\/03\/10\/the-gruffalo-song-world-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gruffalo Song &#8211; World Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Music, as part of our World Book Day activities, we learned a song all about the Gruffalo, the lovable character created by Julia Donaldson. We learned the words and the melody first and then added some actions to help us.<\/p>\n<p>Below are slides of each of the four verses and also a little video clip of the class performing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-848\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144931\/WBD-intro-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144931\/WBD-intro-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144931\/WBD-intro-1024x467.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144931\/WBD-intro-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144931\/WBD-intro.png 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-843\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144856\/Gruffalo-song-title-300x149.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144856\/Gruffalo-song-title-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144856\/Gruffalo-song-title-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144856\/Gruffalo-song-title-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144856\/Gruffalo-song-title.png 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-844\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144904\/Gruffalo-v1-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144904\/Gruffalo-v1-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144904\/Gruffalo-v1-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144904\/Gruffalo-v1-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144904\/Gruffalo-v1.png 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-845\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144911\/Gruffalo-v2-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144911\/Gruffalo-v2-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144911\/Gruffalo-v2-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144911\/Gruffalo-v2-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144911\/Gruffalo-v2.png 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-846\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144917\/Gruffalo-v3-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144917\/Gruffalo-v3-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144917\/Gruffalo-v3-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144917\/Gruffalo-v3-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144917\/Gruffalo-v3-1038x564.png 1038w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144917\/Gruffalo-v3.png 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-847\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144926\/Gruffalo-v4-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144926\/Gruffalo-v4-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144926\/Gruffalo-v4-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144926\/Gruffalo-v4-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/10144926\/Gruffalo-v4.png 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-842-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/16172818\/P1-2a-Gruffalo-Song.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/16172818\/P1-2a-Gruffalo-Song.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary12a2526\/uploads\/sites\/3636\/2026\/03\/16172818\/P1-2a-Gruffalo-Song.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Music, as part of our World Book Day activities, we learned a song all about the Gruffalo, the lovable character created by Julia Donaldson. We learned the words and the melody first and then added some actions to help us. Below are slides of each of the four verses and also a little video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/2026\/03\/10\/the-gruffalo-song-world-book-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gruffalo Song &#8211; World Book Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary12a2526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}