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.