The second session focuses on changes to plants in the garden.
2. Plants on the move
To prepare the ground for new plants, the children dig with an imaginary trowel and pull winter weeds, 鈥榝alling over鈥 backwards. As plant-shoots, they burst through the soil, using sharp, spiky, up-and-down, pointing movements. These contrast with more gentle curving-circles and spiral-shapes, for the plant-stems growing upwards, leading to arms spreading open like petals. However, they are spun round by the wind and have to shelter from a shower of rain. After collecting up the weeds from before, everyone cools down like the hedgehog, beginning to stir in the compost heap.
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)
Movement focus
Action: Bending, digging, lifting and falling over. Spinning.
Dynamics: Sudden, spiky, pointy movements. Slow curving, circling and spiralling.
Space: Working in 鈥榯ight鈥 groups, and moving freely through the spaces.
Relationships: Working in pairs and lines, following a leader.
Related units of KS1 Dance: Time to Move
Spring plants. collection
Two dance sessions with Pete Hillier exploring plant germination and seed dispersal.
The Pond in Spring. collection
Diane Louise Jordan has three dance sessions exploring changes to pond life during the Spring.
Fruit and veg. collection
Exploring food through movement and dance.
