Lesson Planning
Talk about how adults have helped us to learn new things. Discuss how we learn new skills and copy a simple rhythm. Use copying technique in dance to explore what baby animals need to learn from adults. Take it in turns to be the leader and then the follower in the dance. Make animals from playdough, copy patterns using the peg boards and use a writing frame to write about what a baby animal needs to learn.
Teaching Outcomes
To understand how baby animals and humans learn through watching, playing and copying.
Children will:
- Learn that animals, including themselves, learn from the adults around them.
- Create movements of different animals and copy these movements to form a dance.
- Learn to listen to each other’s suggestions and take it in turns to take the lead.