Meaningful Moments: Sing and Sign 'Sing a Rainbow'

Meaningful Moments: Sing and Sign 'Sing a Rainbow'

Activity 4 of 15 in this unit

  • Cool+
  • Primary
  • Foundation
  • Year 1
  • The Arts
  • Music
  • ...

Activity summary

Students will practice singing and signing the song; ‘Sing a rainbow’. This could make an impressive assembly item!

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand that people communicate in different ways.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • demonstrate their listening and speaking skills
  • use a range of Auslan signs.

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Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • collaboration
  • communication
  • social skills

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Foundation English:

  • Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people (AC9EFLA01)

Year 1 English:

Understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands (AC9E1LA01)

Relevant parts of Foundation English achievement standards: Students listen to texts, interact with others and create short spoken texts, including retelling stories. 

Relevant parts of Year 1 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create short spoken texts including recounts of stories. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN2-1A

General capabilities: LiteracyPersonal and Social Capability 

Resources Required

  • Device capable of sharing a YouTube video with the class

Additional Info

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - lead students in practicing and performing (if desired) their singing and signing song.

Related Professional Learning

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.

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