Music

• Sing different greetings during roll call - can the children match your pitch and tone?
• 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

• 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!"

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.