If You’re Happy and You Know It: Phase 1 Phonics Pack

Bring If You’re Happy and You Know It to life with this playful printable pack, designed to develop oracy, listening skills and Phase 1 phonics through a familiar nursery rhyme.

Children can explore different emotions and actions while experimenting with their voices, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme. The activities encourage children to listen carefully, join in, copy sounds and rhythms, invent new verses and build confidence communicating within a group.

The pack contains:
Emotion cards including happy, sad, excited, surprised, worried, sleepy, curious and angry
Smaller emotion prompt cards
Action cards for clapping, stamping, tapping and other movements
Colourful rhyme bunting
Adult commentary sheet with oracy prompts and vocabulary
Phase 1 phonics invitations covering:
Voice sounds
Sound discrimination
Rhythm & rhyme
Body percussion
Alliteration
Simple play ideas for extending the rhyme

Perfect for Nursery, preschool and early EYFS, either as a focused rhyme-time activity or added to continuous provision.

Please note: This is a digital printable resource. No physical product will be sent. Simply download, print and prepare the resources ready for use.