Overview Principals Course Map List of Music Games

Animal Frolics

Why this lesson is important:

Animal frolics is a celebrative expressive process that allows students a great freedom to express and enjoy themselves moving, interacting with each other, and with the teacher.

while also respecting other students and respecting limits.

Animal frolics allows and encourage various primative movements that give exercise, coordination.

Animal frolics allows and encourages practing a range of emotional expression

Animal frolics allow kids and teachers to interact in a more primal play.

Animal frolics is at times a structure that allows students and teachers of exercise their emerging musical and movement skills

Some Classic Animals

Animal Frolics - Danger Games- these emphasise natural defensive strategies of the natural world. These strategies are largely encoded in our nervous system. By enacting these strategies, students can be empowered by them.

Turtle:

Oppossums:

Roly Poly:

Cat and Mouse: usually adults are the cats, students are the mice. Note I arrange a safe area where students who don't want to play, can stay safely out of the game.

Stand up the to the Bear

Level 2

One or several students act as musicians for the students that are moving.

Level 3 Cycle Stories

Frogs: can start as frogs eggs and develop into frogs.

From caterpillar to butterfly

From apple seed to apple tree

From acorn to oak tree

Combine classes or groups

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Note: Animal Frollics often transitions into Hibernation