Let’s ‘Play to Learn’
- Read parts of the story / play parts of the narrated story
- Encourage the children to use and adapt the Body Awareness and Locomotor skills they have already developed to show a range of creative movements to ‘fit’ that part of the story
Safety & Organisation
Ensure:
- the surface is clean and free from obstructions
- children work in their ‘bubbles’
Opportunities to
- join in or move freely to music
- broadly imitate actions, sounds and words
- move imaginatively
Questions
- How can you move when the dragon is flying?
- When could you move on your tummy?
- Imagine you were wriggling and wiggling in Megan’s pocket – how could you move?
- How can you do that moving backwards?
Can you see the child?
- Joining in and moving freely
- Broadly imitating the actions, sounds and words associated with Megan and The Baby Dragon
- Moving imaginatively in response to the stimuli
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Most of the time
Encourage the child to:
- repeat their actions
- discuss the quality of their actions, e.g. is stretch a strong or a weak word? Strong – How can you show me a strong stretch?
- perform their actions for longer
- show actions to another child for them to copy or adapt
- begin to show emotions through their dance actions: happy, sad, etc.
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Sometimes
Encourage the child to:
- focus on their favourite action
- copy your moves/actions
- watch other children to gain ideas. What do they like? How could they do this?
- find other stimuli that inspire them: pictures, video clips, poems, action rhymes, songs and music, etc.
- answer questions about the movements that they might use. E.g. what wobbles? Jelly – how does jelly move? Show me how you could move like jelly, etc.
- practise Body Awareness skills using the Technical Skills Cards