Justin Fletcher has the first dance session based on Nick Butterworth's well-known Percy the Park Keeper story.
1. Animals in the park
As a ‘park keeper’ the children explore Percy’s work-actions: unlocking gates, mending fences, planting plants, pruning trees, mowing grass, sweeping paths and fetching ropes to rescue a baby-rabbit who has fallen down a well. Then pairs explore movements as various mammals: scurrying, digging, burrowing, lumbering, creeping and scampering movements - all at different speeds. These contrast with bird movements - swooping, flapping and waddling.
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)
Lesson summary:
Warm up: stretching, reaching towards toes, running on spot, putting on boots.
Park keeping: unlocking gate, mending fences, planting plants, pruning trees, mowing grass.
Ready for a rescue: exploring animal-wildlife with ‘binoculars’.
Hedgehog and Mole: scurrying, digging and burrowing.
Badger and Fox: lumbering and creeping.
Owl and Duck: swooping and flapping.
Mice: making hands into a pair of scampering mice.
Working together: co-operating in digging, watering, passing plants and tools.
Picnic in the Park: actions for reaching into picnic-basket and sharing things around.
Cool down: time to lie back for a doze!
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