This is a three-part unit about the rainforest and the creatures that live in it.
1. Sloth and leopard. audio
The first dance session explores the contrasting movements of sloths and leopards.
2. Flying dragon searches for ants. audio
Pupils dance as Flying dragon - a type of flying reptile - gliding through the trees and searching for ants.
3. Leopard is rescued. audio
The sloths, the ants and the Flying dragon rescue the leopard from a hunter's trap.
Life in the rainforest
This is a three-part unit about the rainforest and the creatures that live in it. The first dance session focuses on the sloth and the leopard. We explore how the sloth loves to curl up asleep, then wake up and hang upside down in the trees. We also explore how the sloth reaches up into the trees to eat fruit. Down below, on the forest floor, the leopards practise their fast running, then prowl around the sloth’s tree, looking up hungrily.
In the second session we continue to find out about some of the other creatures that live in the rainforest. We learn about the flying dragon - a sort of lizard - which can glide through the trees as though flying. The flying dragon likes to search for ants to eat.
In the third and final session the leopard gets into difficulty when he falls into a hunter’s trap. Luckily the sloths, the ants and the flying dragon come to the rescue.
Resources
Click to download / print the Teacher's Notes for this session (pdf)
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