TEACHING PLAN GRADE FOUR

LIFE SKILLS: Performing Arts - Dance and Drama TERM 3

WEEK TOPIC SKILLS LEARNER ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT RESOURCES
1 Topic 1 • Open space
Warm up and Body part isolations in warm ups as part of imaginative Explain to the learners the • Found or made
play experience (e.g. flexing/pointing feet and hands, raising/lowering musical
importance of warm up exercise
head) instruments,
Voice warm ups (e.g. humming, yawning and sighing) Activity 1: Warm up your
including
Call and response games (in speaking, singing and movement) voice(p.111)
drum/tambourine
• Audio
Movement responses to different types of music, exploring how equipment and
Topic 2
mood of music informs mood of movement, and vice versa Activity 5: Dance to different types of audiovisuals with
Improvise Movement sequences exploring verbal dynamics in words such as music (p.113) a range of suitable
and create action words, directional words (words conveying a straight, music
turning or broken movement), contrasting words (big/small, • Charts and
wide/narrow, expand/contract; stretch/shrink), and word
sequences posters (including
musical notation
on a stave of a
3
Action songs (doing actions related to the specific rhythms of the single line)
Topic 1
song)
Activity 2: Sing an action song(p.111) • Props, including
Warm up and Concentration and focus games cans, stones,
play
newspapers,
materials, chairs,
balls, and a large
Characters, using props as stimulus. (Ask: “Who would use this Activity 6: Dance with props (p.114) variety of different
prop? How would they use it? Why would they use it?”) Consider Activity 7: Imagine you are a famous sized and shaped
Topic 2 body language, posture and gesture objects
person (p.114)
Improvise • Textbook
and create

5 Topic 1
Rolling up and down the spine and side bends
Warm up and
Floor work, including rounding and lengthening the spine
Activity 3:Do some stretches (p.112)
play
and stretching, sitting and lying down

Topic 3
Read, Building a drama from a stimulus: characters (connect to Topic 2). Activity 8: Perform a play with music
interpret and Develop storyline (beginning/ middle/ end), characters, space and
perform time through mimed action and dance (p.115)
Songs to improve ability to sing in tune. Relate character of the
chosen songs to suit characters in the drama
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Topic 1
Sensory awareness games (including listening, seeing, touching,
Warm up and smelling, tasting in simple actions) Activity 4:Use all your senses(p.112)
9 play

The expressive qualities of musical instruments in music used in

Topic 2. Classify several instruments as part of a family or group in
terms of appearance, name, how the sound is produced and pitch
Activity 9: Match music and dance
(high-low) (p.117)
Topic 4
Activity 11: Use some key words
Appreciate Own and other’s performances and processes using simple (p.117)
and reflect
creative arts terminology.
on
Key terms: character, posture, gesture, facial expression,
prop, emotion, spine, isolation, timbre, doh-soh, pitch, sound
picture (soundscape)