Pete Hillier has the first of two dance sessions about plant germination, growth and pollination.
1. Roots and shoots
The dance session starts with preparing the ground and planting seeds. This is followed with the need for water and the warmth of the sun to promote growth. This is then developed into the shoots growing upwards creating leaves and buds, as the roots spread down into the soil where they draw in the water and nutrients. Then the children find different ways to represent the rain falling and the sun shining before developing the activity into a paired sequence in which one child is the seed growing and the other represents the weather (with an odd numbered group this will still work well having two children as seeds and one representing the weather, or the other way around).
Resources
Download the audio for this dance session as an mp3 file.
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Lesson summary:
Warm up. Digging a hole and planting a seed, then travelling to a different location and repeating followed by watering each plant.
Individual. Growing upwards and spreading outwards. Raindrop actions with different body parts, sun鈥檚 rays stretching outwards.
Pairs. One person is the seed, the other is the weather.
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Three dance sessions exploring the changes that happen in gardens and open spaces during Spring.
Fruit and veg. collection
Exploring food through movement and dance.
