Children will practice rocking on their backs as a preparation for rolling in later lessons.

Children will practice rocking on other parts of their bodies.

Children will be able to make a sequence by performing two like movements.

Ask children to travel around the hall in as many different ways as possible. Can they include some of the movements they practiced in the last lesson?  Challenge children to travel around the workspace again but this time to find as many ways as they can to travel close to the floor. Can they include stretched and curled shapes?

Floor Work
Ask children if they can pull their bodies into a very tight ball by squatting down and balancing on their feet. Get them to pull all parts of their bodies in towards the centre and to hold their arms tightly around their knees.  Challenge children to find other ways of curling up tightly in a ball on the floor. Interact with children while they do this and discuss what part of their bodies is taking their weight. Choose some children to demonstrate and ask the rest of the class to describe what they are doing. Ask children to travel to another part of the workspace while keeping their bodies in a curled up position. Get them to repeat this by stretching their bodies. Which shape made it easier to move?

Remind children that in the last lesson they used different parts of their bodies to take their weight when balancing. Explain that today they will use different parts of their bodies to take their weight when rocking. Discuss what we mean by rocking and how they could change a balance into a rocking movement. Give the children a few minutes to explore rocking on different parts of their bodies.

Choose some children to demonstrate their ways of rocking and get the rest of the class to describe what they are doing, the shapes they are making and the parts of their bodies that are taking the weight. Talk about the importance of safety and show children how to perform a rocking action in a tucked shape with their chin and knees on their chest and their arms around their legs.

Small Apparatus
Remind children how to put out mats safely then ask them to work in fours and place the mats around the workspace. If there are enough mats let children work two to a mat. If not let them work in fours and take turns. Two children could take turns to observe what the others are doing.

Ask children to use the mats to practice rocking from a sitting to a standing position.  Tell them to balance on the edge of the mat then to rock and move onto another part of their body. Can they move from this new position smoothly into a standing position again?  Can children rock on other parts of their bodies on the mats? Can they rock sideways as well as backwards and forwards? Can they move from one side of the mat to another and include a rocking movement while doing so?

Challenge children to make a short sequence by joining two like movements together, i.e. two rocking movements.

Cool Down
Ask children to put the mats away and then to lay on their backs on the floor. Tell them to slowly lift their arms into the air, then their legs. Encourage them to think about making their arms and legs straight, pointing and stretching their fingers and toes.  Ask them how their bodies have changed during exercise.  Tell children to relax on the floor while the teacher recaps on the skills they have used in today's lesson.

Can children work co-operatively to put out mats?

Can children link two like movements? (i.e. two rocking movements)