KS1 · Physical education · Year 2
Weather: gestures, turns, travel and jumps
Dance: my world, weather
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of actions to communicate different types of weather.
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Weather: gestures, turns, travel and jumps: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can use a range of actions to communicate different types of weather.
Key learning points
- Move: communicating different weather through actions requires the use of gestures, jumps, turns, travels and stillness.
- Think: imagination enables us to create and communicate a range of actions.
- Feel: courage supports us to demonstrate our ideas.
- Connect: listening to our partner’s ideas and treating them fairly helps us understand and perform clearly.
Words to know
- choreography
- making a dance
- communicate
- how we share information
- gesture
- a sign or action made with the upper body to show how we feel or to communicate without using words
Common mistakes
In dance we are pretending to 'be' the subject we are creating a dance about.
In dance we use the subject to help us think of movements that show what it is like. Pretending to be something is a drama skill that is used in some, but not all dance.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Allow pupils (within reason) to make the sound effect associated to some actions, e.g. the flash of lightning, when in the exploration and rehearsal sections of the lesson, as this will support their application of the appropriate dynamic.