Feelings, Feelings

Music
Let the orchestra play! Let the children choose an instrument e.g. maracas, body percussion e.g. soft clap or found sound e.g. soft tap on the floor, that matches the mood of the song (the atmosphere or feelings associated with the song). Play along with the beat (the steady pulse) and then play along to the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlying beat) of the song.
Play along to the instrumental version.

Dance
Explore ways that our bodies can move to show our feelings.
Using different parts of your body (specified by teacher) e.g. your left knee, your right eye children experiment moving. Teacher calls out 5,4,3,2,1 FREEZE

Drama
Watch the video song of Feelings, Feeling.
'Guess our feelings' - mime your feeling and others have to guess e.g. angry, frustrated, sleepy etc.

Literacy
Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it, 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.