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Year 2 - Physical education

Weather: gestures, turns, travel and jumps

Dance: my world, weather

Unit Summary

A thematic approach reinforces Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships introducing further constituents to expand dance knowledge. Pupils apply imagination, creativity and skill when making artistic decisions with others. Performance opportunities support reflection and allow interpretation.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use a range of actions to communicate different types of weather.

Key Notes

  • Move: communicating different weather through actions requires the use of gestures, jumps, turns, travels and stillness.
  • Think: imagination enables us to create and communicate a range of actions.
  • Feel: courage supports us to demonstrate our ideas.
  • Connect: listening to our partner's ideas and treating them fairly helps us understand and perform clearly.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • choreography: making a dance
  • communicate: how we share information
  • gesture: a sign or action made with the upper body to show how we feel or to communicate without using words

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • In dance we are pretending to 'be' the subject we are creating a dance about.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: communicating different weather through actions requires the use of gestures, jumps, turns, travels and stillness. Think: imagination enables us to create and communicate a range of actions.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'choreography'

making a dance.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: In dance we are pretending to 'be' the subject we are creating a dance about. Correction: In dance we use the subject to help us think of movements that show what it is like. Pretending to be something is a drama skill that is used in some, but not all dance.

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