Diane Louise Jordan has three sessions exploring the life in a pond during the Spring.
1. Underwater Action. audio
Diane Louise Jordan has the first of three dance sessions inspired by pond life in Spring, including microscopic organisms and surface skaters.
2. Frogs, toads, newts and grass-snakes. audio
Diane Louise Jordan has the second of three dance sessions inspired by changes to pond life in Spring.
3: Birds on the water. audio
Diane Louise Jordan has the last of three dance sessions inspired by changes to pond life in Spring.
The Pond in Spring
A chance to explore some of the changes that happen at a pond in Spring, and the movements of animals and plants children might see there. We begin with tiny, squiggly underwater microscopic creatures, elegant insects on the surface and some different kinds of water-plants, using movement and dance in groups to discover how they all interact.
The second programme features bouncing amphibians, especially hopping frogs, some jazzy toads on a hazardous journey and newts that just have to show off. The children then twist, turn, stretch and roll like grass snakes.
The final programme of the unit introduces bird-life, especially the movement of swooping swallows, a high-stepping heron (watching and waiting for food), ducks and ducklings waddling in a follow-my-leader line and small birds splashily washing their feathers. The unit concludes with a dance-sequence highlighting how everything is linked in a ‘food chain’, from microscopic creatures, to flies and insects, to amphibians, to grass snakes and eventually to the heron.
Resources
Related units of KS1 Dance: Time to Move
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.
Fruit and veg. collection
Exploring food through movement and dance.
