Warm up
Ask children to find a space of their own. Explain that in today's
lesson they will be thinking about changing body shape as well as
changing direction. For today's warm up children will visit Planet
Boo. On Planet Boo they must move as the 'Controller' says but when
he calls 'Aliens' they can choose to frighten the aliens by making a
big stretched but silent shape, or hide by making a small curled
shape. Children need to change their shape each time. Move from
gentler ways of movement such as walking to running and jumping to
increase the heart rate.
Floor Work
Ask children to curl up tightly in a ball on the floor. Challenge
them to show different body parts that can touch the floor when they
are curled.
Tell children
to move to different parts of the hall in a curled shape - can they
change direction? Do they always have to be on hands and feet? Can
they move in a curled shape using other parts of their bodies? e.g.
bottoms and hands, rolling in a curled shape. Ask some children to
demonstrate and the rest of the class to discuss what they have
seen.
Ask children to
stretch up high and feel how their bodies change. What different
shapes can they make in this stretched position. Can they change to
wide, stretched shapes? Do they need to be on their feet to make
these stretched shapes? Can they find other parts of their bodies on
which to take their weight when they stretch? Challenge children to
find ways of moving around the workspace in a stretched out way.
Again ask some children to demonstrate and discuss what they saw.
Did children move in different directions? Were some children nearer
to the floor than others when they moved? Did anyone use a stretched
roll? Give children time to practice and perfect movements other
children have made.
Ask children to
use pushing and pulling movements to move around the workspace. What
shape was their body when they moved in this way?
Apparatus
These activities are suitable for either small or large apparatus.
Remind children
about the agreed rules for putting out apparatus safely then divide
them into groups to put the apparatus out. . Ask children to sit
quietly when they have completed the task given and to watch and
check that other children have put out apparatus correctly. Have
enough apparatus for five or six different groups.
Ask each group
to sit by a different set of apparatus. Tell children you want them
to think about body shape when they are using the apparatus. Can
they sometimes make a curled shape and sometimes a stretched shape.
Ask them to try to make sure they also change direction.
Get children to
change apparatus groups and sit down. Remind children that in the
last lesson we tried to find ways of making a clear beginning and
end to our sequences. Discuss ways that they did this. Explain that
children should again make a sequence but this time they should
include 'unlike' actions - such as a stretch and a curl. Ask them to
put three different movements into their sequence and then to keep
practising it.
Give children
plenty of time to invent and practice their sequence then choose two
or three children to demonstrate what they have done. Ask the rest
of the class to describe the movement in detail and to decide if the
changes are smooth and could be improved in any way.
Again get
children to change apparatus groups and sit down. Challenge children
to repeat their sequence on the new set of apparatus but this time
ask them to make their starting position in a stretched shape and
their finishing position in a curled shape. Remind them to be very
still on completion. If time choose a good example for
demonstration.
Cool Down
Remind children about the rules for putting the apparatus away
safely then ask children to do so. When they have finished ask them
to find a space on the floor and sit down.
Explain for the
'Cool Down' activity they are going to play 'Follow my leader' and
should join the line as the teacher passes and touches them. When
everyone is in the line the teacher could move around the room
taking different pathways gradually reducing the speed of the
movements. Eventually she/he should melt gently to the floor and lie
on her side. When all children are doing this recap on the skills
learnt in today's lesson.
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