In the first session Justin Fletcher celebrates all the people who help us in school.
1. Just one day
The first session is school-based and focuses on teachers, cooks and lunchtime helpers, friends and older children.
Resources
Download the audio of this dance session as an mp3 file.
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Lesson summary:
Warm-up: Friends. Partners travel side by side with light, rhythmic skipping steps through the spaces, stopping with the music to hold hands and skip round together in a small circle. Repeat.
Teachers. Working in pairs, one person uses their hand to draw enormous shapes in the air (circle, square and triangle), then their partner cuts the shape out with imaginary scissors. Swap and repeat.
Teachers. Follow-the-leader floor shapes - partners turn their air shapes into selected floor shapes, using their feet to walk around or draw their chosen shapes on the floor.
Lunchtime helpers. Cooks鈥 sharp, rhythmical, chopping actions contrasted with smooth, continuous stirring and mixing actions.
Lunchtime helpers. Clearing up: collecting and piling plates high, then picking them up and walking carefully through the spaces balancing them with wobbly body movements.
Playground games: Hopscotch. Hopscotch jumping patterns, going forwards, backwards or sideways.
Playground games: Football. Dribbling an imaginary ball through the spaces, kicking the imaginary ball to pass it to one another and shooting the ball to score a goal!
Cool down: Class circle. Forming a big class circle to finish and reflect about 鈥楶eople who help us鈥 at school.
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