Under the Sea

Throughout our Journey

Resource
Creative Movement

Instructions

These resources have been designed to support thematic and holistic learning, set within the context of creative movement, dance, creative games making and creative activities.

Themes

Coral

  • Strong spiky shapes, gestures

Eels

Sea horses

  • Gallop, travel, bob up and down. Swim around anemones and coral without touching either

Octopi/octopuses

  • Make bigger shapes with partners to create waving long legs

Crabs

  • Sideway movements on a medium level

Whales

  • Large bold movements

Rays

  • Low movements across the floor

Jellyfish

  • Arm gestures and travelling, water filling under canopy, strong downward movement, squirt water out to rise upwards. Swim around anemones and coral without touching either

Dolphins

  • Smaller graceful movements, leap, glide, smoothly

Starfish

  • Make different star shapes with the whole of the body, i.e. balance, upside down, twist, stand, lie on the floor

Shells

  • Shapes

Mermaids

Submarines

Anemones

  • Soft, waving gestures, gentle, transference of weight, different levels, directions

Sharks

  • Fast sharp changes in direction

Pufferfish

  • Change shape from small to large and back to small

Divers

Media

  • Music

    Dan y Dŵr, Enya

    Artist: Various
    Track: ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’
    Album: 100 Greatest TV Themes (Re-recorded). 2002. Silva Screen Records Ltd

    Artist: Christopher Benstead Track 21: ‘The Deep’
    Album: Music for Dance The early Years Vol. 2. 2010.
    www.musicfordance.net/

    Artist: Caroline and Danny Track: ‘Wiggle, Jiggle, Giggle’
    http://www.songsforteaching.com/animalsongs/carolineanddanny-wigglejigglegiggle.php

  • DVD/Books/Poems

    DVDs

    Shark Tale, Dreamworks (2005)

    Books

    Andrea, G. and Wojtowycz, D., ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ (1999)
    Pfister, M., The Rainbow Fish (1996) North-South books

    Walding, M., The Sea (integrated Theme) (2007) Curriculum Concepts

    Ross, T., Addewid y Penbwl/ Tadpole’s Promise (2003)