Animal Frolics
Purpose of this lesson:
Animal frolics is a celebrative expressive process that allows students a great freedom to express and enjoy themselves while also respecting other students.
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
Turtles: crawling on all fours, when a musical signal is given all students go in to their shell.
When the beat restarts, students come out of their shells and crawl.
Birds: flying with wings out, flocking usually following an adult.
Dinosaurs: large muscle strong movements
Dragons: like dinosaurs but might breath fire.
Kittens:
Beavers: may build dams or chew down trees, slap their tails to warn others.
Opposums: play dead to handle danger.
Elephants: have trunks, the trumpet with their trunks
Snakes:
Roly-Polys: are cued by walking beat and a rolling beat. Students learn to roll on cue.
They learn to not roll over other studnets.
Unicorns / Pegasus: horse like movements
Lions: roar and students are still expected to care about other students even when they are being a lion.
Monkeys: love to talk with each other in monkey language
Lizards: crawl on their bellys.
Bears: walk on hands and feet, knees off the ground. (builds upper body strength)
Orangatang: move with two hands together and two feet together.(builds upper body strength, and upper /lower body coordination.)
Spiders:
Crabs:
Jelly Fish:
Dolphins / Sharks:
Cats chasing Mice: usually adults are the cats, students are the mice.
I arrange a safe area where students who don't want to play, can stay safely out of the game.
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:
Stand up the to the Bear
Level 2
Some Students act as musicians for the students that are moving.
Level 3
Combine classes or groups