Happiness Is Something If You Give It Away

Music

Sing with expression. How can you sing this song to convey the feelings of the words? How does this song make you feel?

View the video song and focus on the children who are singing, observing their facial expressions and body language as they communicate the feeling of the song.

Invite individual children or small groups to perform the song to the class. Sing along to the instrumental version. Ask children to reflect on their performance.

Health

Talk about establishing positive relationships with friends.

Dance

Explore ways that our bodies can move to show that we are happy.

Dance on the spot - choose a few non-locomotor words (twist, swing, bend, rock, kick) and practice different ways of doing each move.

Literacy

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

Story starter "I feel happy whenÉ"

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.