Year 4 - Physical education
Create movement sequences to express emotions
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness, meditative balances and relaxation techniques
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Unit Summary
This unit will focus on exploring positive and negative emotions and managing them through using mindfulness techniques such as visualisation, meditative balances, mime and deep breathing. Pupils will understand why these techniques are important for a healthy mind to support our overall wellbeing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to interpret the music to create movements with a partner that express emotions and how we are feeling.
Key Notes
- Move: responding to the music with clear actions helps us to express an emotion to others.
- Think: reflecting on our own and other people's movements can help us develop and improve our performance.
- Feel: striving to consistently match our movements to different emotions requires discipline and self-motivation.
- Connect: helping each other create movements that are linked to emotions shows respect and trust in one another.
Vocabulary To Learn
- respond: what you do or feel after something happens
- expression: showing how you feel
- emotions: feelings that we have in response to a situation, event or thought, which influence our mood or behaviour.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think everyone will feel the same way when they hear a piece of music and respond with the same actions and expressions.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: responding to the music with clear actions helps us to express an emotion to others. Think: reflecting on our own and other people's movements can help us develop and improve our performance.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'respond'
what you do or feel after something happens.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think everyone will feel the same way when they hear a piece of music and respond with the same actions and expressions. Correction: Explain to pupils that we might feel and respond the same way, but it is just as likely that we will feel differently as a number of factors will influence how we feel, including our mood and experiences that day.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Combine and perform mime with meditative balances Study Guide
- Interpret music to create expressive movement Study Guide
- Performing meditative balances incorporating mindfulness techniques Study Guide
- Use mime to explore positive and negative emotions Study Guide
- Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions Study Guide
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