Howard Ward has the third dance session based on Greedy Zebra by Mwenye Hadithi.
3. Spots, stripes and a stitch in time
Howard Ward returns with another dance session based on Greedy Zebra. This session focuses on: gesture; pathways; body; shape; travelling.
NB. Before starting the session the children need to be standing in a whole class circle.
Resources
Download the audio for this dance session as an mp3 file.
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Programme content:
Make it yourself. Working on their own, the children begin to design their own material. Imagining the cloth to be laid out on the floor in front of them, they dip hands, feet and gigantic brushes into bright colours, to flick, dab, spill, spot and create their own patterns and pictures all across the material.
Cut it out. Using feet as cutters, the children mark out and snip round the shapes for their coats. With one chosen finger as the magic needle, they follow the thread in and out, forwards and backwards, stitching their imaginary coat.
Try it on. Once ready, they slip, wriggle and mould the coat to their shapes. Does it fit?
Who are you now? Moving as the new animals they now are, the whole class put their needles away in a safe place, then set off to look for Greedy Zebra. They make a class circle, imagining Greedy Zebra inside it. They parade round him, showing off their new coats, to encourage him to have a go.
Final thought. Sitting on the floor in their circle, the children imagine how they might look in their new skins, and how they could make them even better.
More from this unit of KS1 Dance: Let's Move
1. Time for change. audio
Part 1 of Greedy Zebra by Mwenye Hadithi.
2. News travels fast. audio
Part 2 of 'Greedy Zebra' by Mwenye Hadithi.
4. Zebra's lesson. audio
The final part of 'Greedy Zebra' by Mwenye Hadithi.