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.