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
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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 LtdArtist: 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 booksWalding, M., The Sea (integrated Theme) (2007) Curriculum Concepts
Ross, T., Addewid y Penbwl/ Tadpole’s Promise (2003)