The second and final dance session in this unit.
2. Busy streets
In this session the children start at a rainy roadside, then go on a journey to the market where they perform dance actions for buying and selling. Out on the roads they drive large and small vehicles, travel in pairs as a dustbin lorry and become changing traffic-lights. At night the city buildings twinkle and fl ash, then everyone falls asleep鈥
Resources
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Lesson summary
Warm up - rainy roadside: walking in the rain as a busy, tall person with an umbrella, then an older person in welly-boots, then a jogger keeping fit.
Neighbourhood journey: performing individual movement-actions for getting dressed, eating breakfast and travelling to market by skipping and 鈥榮cooting鈥 along the pavement.
Market day: working in pairs as a 鈥榤arket-trader鈥 and an 鈥榓dult-shopper鈥, performing buying-and-selling actions in role.
Too much traffic! 鈥楧riving鈥 small vehicles on tiptoe in different directions, then large vehicles, which move more slowly.
Dustbin collection: pairs move about slowly as a dustbin-lorry (one 鈥榙riving鈥, one following with arms like jaws chewing up rubbish).
Changing traffic lights: about half the class indicate 鈥榮top鈥 and 鈥榞o鈥 as traffic lights, using arm-signals. The other half are vehicles, stopping and going, obeying the signals.
Cool down - the city at night: standing up, flashing fingers like window-lights, then curling up sleepily.
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