This week we are going to be learning all about some different body parts. Let’s sing this song to see if you can guess what we are learning about this week:

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

In our song we sang about; eyes, ears, mouth and a nose. Where can we find those body parts...on our faces! This week we are learning all about our faces. 

Today's challenge is to see if we can make a face using shapes! I wonder what shapes we could use, let’s sing this shape song to remind us of the shape names:

Shapes

Today we are going to make some faces using shapes. 

Look we have a big felt circle shape and this will be the face. 

Let’s look in the mirror…What can you see on your face? 2 eyes, 1 nose and 1 mouth. 

I wonder what shapes you think would work best to make your own felt shape face.  

Do you remember what we made yesterday? Shall we give you a clue? Singing; eyes and ears and mouth and a nose! We made shape faces! Well today we are going to be making some more faces of our own! Some happy faces, sad  faces and sleepy faces while singing this song:

If You’re Happy Happy Happy

Now we are going to make some more faces but first let's all take one dancing scarf each. Our challenge is when we sing ‘boo’ we must reveal either a happy or sad face. Let’s go!

Peek-a-Boo

Now let's try something even trickier! Let’s play 'Say Cheese' with our dancing scarves and each time we say ‘cheese’ we need to listen for the emotional facial expression we need to make.

Look we have a teddy bear, let's see if we can point to the different face parts.

Can you find the bear's ears? Can you find the bear's eyes? Can you find the bear's mouth? 

If we know all of these then why don’t we sing this fun song together too and practice even more body parts:

My Teddy Bear

How are you feeling today?

‘Tell Me How You’re  Feeling’

Let’s read a book about feelings. Can you tell how the babies are feeling from their faces?

Read - Baby Feelings

Look at my Emoji felt face. What feeling is showing? Happy, Sad, Angry, Silly? 

Now that we can name and recognise some emotions, we are going to see how WE look when we are happy, sad or angry. 

Let’s take some selfies while making faces showing different emotions.

Feelings songs

How are you feeling today?

 Let's sing a song about feelings

Feelings Hokey Cokey

Let’s read a book about feelings. Can you tell how the babies are feeling from their faces?

Read - Baby Feelings

We saw so many different feelings in our story, let’s sing about some more!

You Can Tell How I Feel

Now that we can name and recognise some emotions, we are going to see how WE look when we are happy, sad or angry. 

Let’s take some selfies while making faces showing different emotions.

Feelings songs

Let’s check out our Makaton Signs for the week: Teacher, Children & Friend:

Makaton Signs of the Week

Let’s look at some more Makaton sings: : Happy, Sad & Angry

This week we’re starting our preparation for writing programme - Wiggle me into Squiggle. Our first move is:

Up

Wriggle me into a Squiggle Song Sheet

This week we will look at what the children get up to in the playground!