Today we used Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' violin concerto to dance to. We got into groups to prepare a dance about Rona and the Moon. This is what we explored...
PK: Explore mirroring in pairs and moving through different environments, making different pathways and shapes. We explored the changing shape of the moon: the full round moon shrinking to a thin arc moon; make the shape of a star; the shape of a water gourd empty, then full of water; make the crouched shape of Rona's reflection in the pond: a mirror image, then Rona's curled-up shape captured inside Marama, the moon; use mirroring and magnetism to show the moon's gravitational pulling and pushing powers – its magnetic field.
DI: Develop direct and indirect pathways in the air and on the floor, creating a non-locomotive and locomotive sequence.
CI: Perform our dances. We identified the shapes and pathways of the moon and the stars and gave lots of feed-back and feed-forward using the elements of dance.
Here are two of our presentations. I would love to have included them all as they were all of such a high standard. It was especially satisfying to see the enjoyment, creativity and the total involvment of both boys and girls.
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