Let’s ‘Play to Learn’
- Read parts of the story / play parts of the story on the CD-ROM
- Encourage the children to move around the space using actions that ‘fit the story’
- Explore walking over rocks carrying heavy bags, jumping waves, tracing simple shapes/patterns in the air and on the floor, flying like a kite
Safety & Organisation
Ensure:
- the surface is clean and free from obstructions
- children work in their ‘bubbles’
Opportunities to
- join in by responding naturally
- broadly imitate actions, sounds and words
- move in different ways
- move in different directions
- role play on their own or in parallel with other children or an adult
Questions
- How would you move if you were rubbing in sun cream?
- How can you make your actions bigger?
- How can you show building a sandcastle in the air?
- How are the children co-operating to fill the moat?
- How can we work together?
- What movements can we use?
- What happens to the scarf/ribbon when you hold it in your hand as you trace a pattern in the air?
Can you see the child?
- Joining in by responding naturally
- Broadly imitating actions, sounds and words
- Moving in different ways
- Moving in different directions
- Role playing on their own or in parallel with other children or an adult
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Most of the time
Encourage the child to:
- repeat their actions
- discuss the quality of their actions, e.g. is ‘battle’ a strong or a weak word? Strong – How can you show me you battling strongly with a kite?
- 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
- discuss how they might move and then move with them
- 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 other creatures might you find on the beach? How do they move? Can you show me how you could move like them?
- practise Body Awareness skills using the Technical Skills Cards