LET’S MOVE AROUND

Module

Me, My Family and Friends

Unit

Body Movement

Key Stage Targets

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English

-to recognise some obvious features of the English Language in simple spoken and written texts such as the sound patterns of English and apply this awareness to one’s initial learning and use of learning (K.D.f)

-to develop an awareness and an enjoyment of the basic sound patterns of English in imaginative texts through activities such as participating in action rhymes and singing songs (E.D.a)

-to give expression to imaginative ideas through oral, written and performative means such as experimenting with simple sound and word patterns in creating rhymes and poems based on given models (E.D.c)

Learning Objectives

  1. Motivate pupils to learn about how moving one’s body like singing and dancing is a means to socialize, to communicate with others and to express one’s emotions
  2. Integrate music and physical education into the English curriculum
  3. Encourage pupils to exercise their imagination

Programme Outline

After watching a TV video for the umpteenth time, Tommy and Alice run out of ideas on what to do to pass their time. Their neighbour, Lucy walks by and invites them to go with her to Uncle Teddy. Tommy feels hesitant and Alice wonders who Uncle Teddy is. However on meeting Uncle Teddy, the children begin to discover what great fun it is to move their body around. Uncle Teddy teaches them how to bounce like a tennis ball, how to perform simple action rhymes and above all how to exercisetheir imagination with their body movements to be different kinds of animals. The children finally find delight in exercising and moving their body around.

Communicative Functions

  1. Identify simple objects and describe their sizes, shapes and colours
  2. State opinions and express feelings

Suggested Activities:

  1. Motivate the class by asking pupils what outdoor activities they do in their spare time. Write the pupils’ answers on the board. Highlight to the pupilsthose activities related to this programme, such as dancing, singing, etc.
  1. Briefly introduce the programme outline to the class. Encourage the pupils to move their body according to the lyrics of the songs while they are watching the programme. Teachers may find it useful to watch this programme in a spacious room where pupils can sing, dance and move their body around.
  1. Give out Copymaster 1 to pupils. Encourage pupils to read the action rhyme aloud. Draw pupils’ attention to the words that rhyme with ‘bounce’.

Answers: 2. down, round, ground;

3. town, gown, clown, drown, bound

  1. Pupils complete Part 2a in Copymaster 2 after viewing the programme. Ask pupils to read the action rhymes together before and after the task. Draw pupils’ attention to the repetition and encourage them to perform the action while they are reading out the rhymes aloud.
  1. In Part 2c of Copymaster 3, pupils are encouraged to stretch their imagination and think of what animals they will become with the specified body movement. Teachers may need to demonstrate to the pupils what each verb means and ask them to think of an animal which best describes the action.

Copymaster 1

Let’s Move Around

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Part 1

Bounce, bounce, bounce

  1. Read the following action rhyme aloud.

Bounce, bounce, bounce

Bouncing up and down

Bounce, bounce, bounce

Bouncing all around

Let’s all turn around

Touch the grassy ground

  1. Circle the words that have the same sound as ‘bounce’.
  1. Write down the words you have circled:

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  1. Can you think of one or two more words that have the same sound as ‘bounce’?

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  1. Read the action rhyme again and bounce.

Copymaster 2

Let’s Move Around

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Part 2a

Guessing Game

Do you remember Uncle Teddy’s guessing game? Would you like to play it again?

Read the following from Uncle Teddy and write down which animal he is.

  1. I’m a green animal.

I hop high to the hills.

I hop low down to the fields.

I am a ______.

  1. I’m long and brown.

I wiggle in the trees.

I wiggle in the fields.

I am a ______.

  1. I’m black and white.

I gallop up the hill.

I gallop down the hill.

Horses are my cousins.

I’m a ______.

Copymaster 3

Let’s Move Around

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Part 2b

Move Like the Animals

Read the following action rhymes and move your body accordingly.

  1. Hop, hop, hop

I hop like a frog.

A green, green frog.

  1. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

I wiggle like a worm.

A long, brown worm.

  1. Gallop, gallop, gallop

I gallop like a zebra

With black and white stripes.

Part 2c

What other animals can you be with your body?

Try the following actions. What animals can you be?

SpinSpin, spin, spin

I spin like a ______

A ______

Swing Swing, swing, swing

I swing like a ______

A ______

JumpJump, jump, jump

I jump like a ______

A ______

Copymaster 4

Let’s Move Around

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Lyrics

Song 1

Come on boys

Come on girls

Don’t just sit down

Get up and move

It’s lots of fun

Move yourself

From head to toe

Song 2

Bounce, bounce, bounce

Bouncing up and down

Bounce, bounce, bounce

Bouncing all around

Let’s all turn around

And touch the grassy ground

Song 3

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, shout hooray

If you’re happy and you know it, shout hooray

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it, shout hooray

If you love someone and know it, give a hug

If you love someone and know it, give a hug

If you love someone and know it, and you really want to show it

If you love someone and know it, give a hug