Our World - Creating Sequences of Movement

Explain that this activity will warm the children's muscles and begin to generate ideas for the coming gymnastics movements.

Recap the importance of a strong core.

Teaching Points:

Encourage controlled and extended movements in the warm-up. Ask the children to suggest how to warm-up safely, and to explain why warming up is important.

Musical shapes:

Play music and allow the children to move around the room freely, making sure not to collide with others.

Encourage creative ways of travelling.

Pause the music, tell the group you would like them to get into pairs and make the letter T.

Repeat for different letters.

Repeat asking the children to get into different sized groups, making different letters with their bodies.

Actions - ways of travelling - skip, gallop, creep, march.

Space - levels, direction, size of space, pathways.

Dynamics - speed, tempo, weight at which movements are performed.

Relationships - working alone, as a class, in small groups.

Key vocabulary - related to lesson intention.

Teaching Points:

Encourage a variety of sizes, speeds, directions, and levels.

Use whole body or individual body parts.

Make shapes with the body - symmetrical and asymmetrical.

Encourage quality movements, showing tension and extension.

Encourage variety by asking 'what other ways can we...?'

Our World - Jungle Adventure:

The children will roam around the space, and when an animal is called, the children must replicate that animal.

For example, if giraffe was called the children would stretch as tall as they can, a mouse; as small as they can, an elephant; walk on all fours, a rabbit, bunny hops etc.

Make the animal movements specific to the stretching movements and similar to fundamental gymnastics skills covered in this unit.

Now link these movements together for example calling giraffe, followed by calling elephant.

Explain to the children that when we put two moves together this is called a sequence.

Can the children make up their own animal sequence which includes 4 or more different animal moves.

Encourage the children to think about the gymnastics ideas covered so far. For example, can they include different body shapes can they travel on different levels can they jump and land in different ways whilst being their jungle animal?

Explain how the following activity allows the children to 'refine' the skills they have just worked on, as the skill is included in this activity.

Now join with a partner and show your partner your small sequence of moves.

Can you and your partner add each other's moves together to make one longer sequence.

Practise and perform these together.

Can you help each other to improve on the ideas and link the two sequences together?

Stretches whilst self or peer evaluating.

Evaluate what went well (against the learning intention):

Develop balance, agility, and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of gymnastics activities.

Explore gymnastic actions and body shapes, moving confidently, using changes of speed, level, and direction.

Copy or create movement phrases with beginnings, middles and ends.

Watch, copy and describe what they and others have done.

Discuss how improvements can be made in their following lesson/performance.