Justin Fletcher has the first of two dance sessions celebrating Chinese / Lunar New Year.
1. Getting ready
The first of two sessions covers the preparations for Chinese New Year and ends with a big celebratory meal for family and friends. The children work on their own throughout the session.
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)
Video: 'Chinese New Year' from Assemblies
Lesson summary:
Warm up: stretching; skipping around the space changing direction to a cue.
Tidying the home: working with busy fingers to put everything away before cleaning.
Letting good luck in: jogging around space, stopping to open windows to allow good luck in; polishing surfaces.
Chinese New Year market: moving around open-air market to source the things needed for the New Year celebrations.
Decorating the home: hanging up the lanterns and wind chimes bought at the market.
Chinese stir fry: moving in three separate ways to indicated the 鈥榗hopping鈥, 鈥榮tirring鈥 and 鈥榝rying鈥 elements of a stir fry meal.
Cool down: lying still on the floor; stretching limbs.
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