Little Birdy
Children will love to sing and dance
along with this fun Animal song!
English and Samoan Version
“Si manu laititi “
Lyrics
Little birdy on a tree, on a tree,
on a tree.
Little birdy on a tree,
singing a song for you and me.
Samoan
Si manu laititi sa i luga ole la aue.
sa i luga ole la aue, sa i luga ole la aue.
Si manu laititi sa i luga ole la aue
O lo 'o pese mai ia te a 'u.
Activities
Music
- Singing helps to build language and memory skills, it 's also FUN!
- Children lie down, close their eyes and listen to "Little Birdy."
- Ask children what instrument accompanies the song? Ask children "Is the music loud or soft? Fast or slow? Which section of the song is sung by a group and which section of the song is sung by a soloist? What about the words, can they understand the second verse?" This is a beautiful Samoan lullaby.
Dance
- Create 'soft dance ' moves to accompany the song e.g. sway body, tip toe lightly etc. Use scarves. Make children aware of their own 'space bubble. '
Visual Art
- Create your own 'little birdie ' stick puppet e.g. use ice block sticks, feathers and stick on eyes.
Literacy
- Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and 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.
