Year 3 - Physical education
Dance: can you move in time to the beat and link your actions together?
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Unit Summary
This unit will teach pupils the importance of timing, creating and performing actions to a beat. Pupils will learn how to use key compositional ideas such as canon, unison and mirroring in their sequence creation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform a range of different actions in time to the beat of a song.
Key Notes
- Move: performing actions in time to the music requires control and accuracy.
- Think: focusing on the beat and moving your body in time to the music requires concentration.
- Feel: trying hard to ensure all of your actions are performed in time with the music demonstrates self-discipline.
- Connect: linking the movements with the music helps me to stay in time and enjoy the performance.
Vocabulary To Learn
- action: a physical thing we do with our body
- beat: the regular, repeated pulse or rhythm in music that dancers follow to stay in time
- link: the connection or combination of movements, skills or actions performed smoothly together
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think they have to do the same action for the full 8 beats.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing actions in time to the music requires control and accuracy. Think: focusing on the beat and moving your body in time to the music requires concentration.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'action'
a physical thing we do with our body.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think they have to do the same action for the full 8 beats. Correction: Pupils can select different actions, 1 per beat if they wish, and they don't have to be the same actions.
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