Pohutukawa Tree
Pohutukawa Tree is a fun New Zealand kids Christmas song with FREE lyrics, activity ideas in the teachers tab and FREE action video song. Sing and Learn the Actions!
Stream anywhere
Pohutukawa Tree Lyrics
I am a Pohutukawa seed,
Plant me in the ground and water me.
Plenty of sunshine is what I need,
Then guess what you will see?
Out will shoot a tiny twig
And it will continue to grow so big,
Beautiful flowers of whero,
The native tree of Aotearoa
Chorus
Pohutukawa tree, Pohutukawa tree,
New Zealand’s Christmas tree,
You fill my heart with aroha,
The native tree of Aotearoa
Pohutukawa Tree Learning Activities
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.
Other Pohutukawa Tree Videos
