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Dance: Telling Stories with Dance – Infants 2 Arts

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Dances can tell stories! Long ago, people danced to tell about the harvest, the sea and their heroes. Let us make our own story dance.

Make a 1-minute group dance

  1. Choose a theme or story: the sea, Carnival, planting crops, a rainy day.
  2. Pick 6 to 8 steps that fit the story.
  3. Put them in order and practise.
  4. Everyone gives ideas; everyone listens.
  5. Perform for 1 minute. Bow at the end!

Traditional steps

Many Caribbean folk dances, like those you may see at a Best Village show, use simple steps:

  • heel and toe: tap your heel forward, then your toe back
  • turn: turn around on the spot
  • sway: rock side to side
  • shuffle: small sliding steps

Add 2 or 3 costume pieces: a scarf, a madras head-tie, a long skirt, a feather or a straw hat.

Dance a hero’s story

Find out 5 or 6 facts about a hero (someone in your family, or a hero of our country). Show each fact with a different movement: marching for being brave, reaching out for helping, rocking a baby for caring, lifting for strength, spinning for joy.

TRY ITStory dance

Choose a game.

Let’s practise

Try each one. Then tap Show answer to check.

1. How long is your group dance?

Show answer

About 1 minute.

2. Name two traditional dance steps.

Show answer

For example heel and toe, turn, sway, shuffle.

3. Name two costume pieces you could use.

Show answer

For example a scarf, a madras head-tie, a feather, a straw hat.

4. How can you be a good group member?

Show answer

Give ideas, listen to others, take turns, encourage.

5. Show a movement for being brave.

Show answer

For example marching strongly with head up.

Quick check

1. What does a dance need to tell a story?

Show answer

A theme, steps in order and movements that show the story.

2. Where can you see folk dances?

Show answer

For example at a Best Village show, a cultural concert or a festival.

3. How many facts about your hero should you find?

Show answer

5 or 6.

Words to know

Say these words with a grown-up. Can you use each one in a sentence?

theme · sequence · heel and toe · sway · shuffle · costume · folk dance · perform

Try it at home

  • Learn heel and toe with a grown-up. Do it to a calypso or folk song.
  • Find 5 facts about a hero in your family and make a movement for each.
  • Make a costume piece from a scarf or old cloth.

For parents and teachers

After this lesson, your child should be able to:

  • create and present a 1-minute group dance of 6–8 steps on a theme
  • give ideas and listen in a group
  • use 3–4 traditional steps and 2–3 costume elements
  • research and dance a hero’s story with 5–6 movements

Previous: Dance: Moving in Space
Next: Drama: Faces, Feelings and Frozen Pictures

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Growing a Plant from a Seed – Infants 2 Agricultural Science

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Farmers grow the food we eat. You can be a little farmer too! Let us grow a plant from a seed – maybe corn, bodi, pigeon peas or pumpkin.

What you need

  • a pot or a cut-off plastic bottle with holes in the bottom
  • potting mix: soil mixed with compost (and a little sand so water drains)
  • seeds (corn, bodi, beans or pigeon peas grow fast)
  • water and a sunny spot

The steps

  1. 🪴 Fill the pot with potting mix.
  2. 🫘 Plant the seed about as deep as your finger’s first joint, and cover it.
  3. 💧 Water it gently.
  4. ☀️ Put it in a sunny, sheltered place.
  5. 🌱 Wait and watch it sprout! Keep the soil damp, not soaking.
A young bean plant with big green leaves growing in a blue pot
A bean seedling growing in potting mix. Photo: Datadoggieein, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Working as a team

  • Take turns: one person fills, one plants, one waters.
  • Share the tools and put them back.
  • Wear gloves, and wash your hands after touching soil.
  • Never put soil, seeds or plants in your mouth.
  • Make a watering roster so the plant is never forgotten.

TRY ITLittle farmer

Choose a game.

Let’s practise

Try each one. Then tap Show answer to check.

1. Put in order: water it, plant the seed, fill the pot.

Show answer

Fill the pot, plant the seed, water it.

2. What is potting mix?

Show answer

Soil mixed with compost (and a little sand).

3. Name two things a seed needs to grow.

Show answer

Water, warmth, air and good soil (and sunlight once it sprouts).

4. Give one way to work safely with soil.

Show answer

Wear gloves, wash your hands, do not put soil in your mouth.

5. Give one way to be a good team-mate.

Show answer

Take turns, share tools, listen to ideas.

Quick check

1. How deep should you plant a small seed?

Show answer

About as deep as the first joint of your finger.

2. How can you tell if a plant needs water?

Show answer

Touch the soil. If it is dry, water it.

3. Name a seed that grows quickly.

Show answer

For example corn, bodi, beans or pigeon peas.

Words to know

Say these words with a grown-up. Can you use each one in a sentence?

seed · potting mix · compost · plant · water · sprout · team · roster

Try it at home

  • Plant a seed at home in a recycled bottle. Look after it for two weeks.
  • Make a watering roster with your family.
  • Draw the 5 planting steps as a comic strip.

For parents and teachers

After this lesson, your child should be able to:

  • sequence the main steps in growing a plant
  • grow a plant from a seed in a suitable potting mix
  • work safely and co-operatively in a team

This post pairs well with the Science seedling-growth lesson: plant here, measure there.

Previous: Infants 2 lessons (all subjects)
Next: Keeping Pet Fish

Attributions to media used in this post:

Pinto Bean Plant Growth.jpg – Datadoggieein – CC0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

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