Hello Nice Day

Music

Singing name game - Children sit in a circle. Each child in turn sings his/her name to a tune of their choice e.g. my name is Tessa. All the other children echo back by singing e.g. your name is Tessa.

Challenge - invite individual children or small groups to sing and perform the song with the instrumental version.

Drama

Watch the video song of Hello.

Using gesture, speech or mime work with a partner to develop movement ideas relating to 'meeting and greeting'

Social Studies

Explore how different cultures greet each other using gesture, speech and body language.

Literacy

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

Use different greetings during roll call.

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.