Three dance sessions exploring many aspects of the food we eat.
1. Growing. audio
The session begins at the vegetable patch with digging, planting and growing actions and a fun display of plant shapes.
2. Healthy harvest. audio
Fruit-picking actions from last time, then change levels for vegetable-picking and juggling imaginary fruit and veg.
3. Fruit and veg of the world. audio
Picking imaginary tropical fruits from hot countries and showing 'snapshots' of differing plant shapes.
Fruit and veg
An exciting exploration in movement of our food: how it grows; how it reaches us - moving between the vegetable patch, the orchard, the market and supermarket, the kitchen, the table; and how it is grown and comes to us from all parts of the world.
The children plant and grow vegetables, pick strawberries, apples, pears and tropical fruit, make delicious soup, buy and sell food at the market, get fit and healthy with five-a-day, and have a picnic among the parsley and sage.
The unit will help to motivate your other classroom and practical work based on growing things - discovering how food gets distributed, the science of food, the human body and health awareness - in an enjoyable way.
The series will also be a useful stimulus for everyone in the class to think about sharing food, environmental questions, and about how our actions and choices now might improve things in the future…maybe?
Resources
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Download extended music sequences for this unit (without presenter instructions)
Songs about vegetables, food and cooking
A collection of songs about vegetables and food to extend your dance work into music
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Spring plants. collection
Two dance sessions with Pete Hillier exploring plant germination and seed dispersal.
Spring in the garden. collection
Three dance sessions exploring the changes that happen in gardens and open spaces during Spring.
Summer camping. collection
Diane Louse Jordan is off on a camping trip - with plenty of ideas for creating dance sequences along the way.
