Diane Louise Jordan has the second of three sessions with dances based on popular playground games.
2. Bounce, clap and wiggle!
The session begins with old-fashioned toy-actions and ends with modern-day toys. As well as lively spinning and wiggling games, the children devise clapping and tapping patterns, and develop movement-sequences based on ball-skills and ball-games.
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)
Movement focus
Action: Combining hand and feet patterns. Trotting, bouncing and spinning. Whole-body wobbles and wiggles.
Dynamics: Lively, concentrated sports-based actions. Changing speeds.
Space: Moving with awareness of sports-space (as in ball-games).
Relationships: Collaborating in pairs and fours. Copying movements in groups.
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