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 collecting, carrying and building a spaceship
- Explore blast off… 10, 9, 8, … 3, 2, 1, blast off
- Explore moving like the spaceship
- Explore moving like an alien creature or spaceman
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
- Imagine you had just landed on Planet Play – how would you move?
- How can you make your actions bigger?
- What would you do if you saw an alien creature?
- Were the creatures friendly or not?
- How can you tell?
- How could you move like the pink creature? How do you think the red alien moves?
- What familiar things are in this story? Where can you see them? How could you show these in your dance? E.g. by repeating and adapting the kite and dragon actions/phrases they have created previously
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 whoosh a fast or a slow word? Fast – How can you show me whooshing?
- 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, 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. For example, what spins? A spinning top – how does a spinning top move? Show me how you could move like a spinning top, etc.
- practise Body Awareness skills using the Technical Skills Cards