My Heart Fills with Happiness Text by Monique Gray Smith

and Illustrations by Julie Flett

Level: Kindergarten
Focus:
 Expression
 Singing
 Patterns

Curricular Outcomes:
The child…
 Explores and expresses ideas, perceptions, feelings and thoughts in a
variety of forms; e.g., art, music, drama and movement.
 Explores and experiments with patterns, movement, rhythm, sound and
music

Process:
1. Introduce the book title to the students.
2. Tell the students that whenever the title of the book appears in the book,
you will all sing it together. Teach melody by rote.
3. Read book all the way through and gesture to students when it is their
turn.
4. Ask students what fills their heart with happiness.
5. Sing the melody all together and substitute some of the students’ answers
in on sol and mi.
*Consider singing the melody to individual students and having an
individual sing their answer on sol and mi solo.

My Heart Fills with Happiness When

Text by Monique Gray Smith

Arr. Megan Fong

My heart fills with happ - i - ness when...