Howard Ward has the second of four dance sessions with moves inspired by British folk dance.
Lesson summary
How do you do?: children travel through the spaces, stopping to shake hands with whoever they meet.
Meeting and greeting: partners face one another to wave, shake hands and turn round together on the spot. Then they separate, move to a new partner and repeat the sequence.
Saying hello: marching/skipping/tiptoeing through the spaces and stopping on signal to bow or curtsey or wave at the nearest person.
Partner dance: children face their partner, holding both their hands, to skip sideways through the spaces, then stop, and turn round together on the spot.
Movement focus
Left and right, sequencing, partners. This programme continues to reinforce pulse, rhythm and patterning of actions. Left and right are introduced and reinforced throughout. Action content is predominantly travel, turn and gesture.
Resources
Download the audio for this dance session as an mp3 file.
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
More from this series
1. Busy feet. audio
The first dance session exploring simple movements inspired by British folk dance.
3. Patterns galore. audio
Another dance session focusing on social skills and inspired by British folk dance.
4. Circle dance. audio
The final dance session culminates in a circle dance inspired by British folk dance.