A 5-day lesson plan focused on expressing emotions through art, drama, dance, and music. Includes activities on open-ended craft construction, reading CVC words with vowel 'u', and composing numbers.
What children learn
- Use dance and body movement to communicate messages, thoughts, and emotions.
- Notice how musical tempo and sound affect movement, feelings, and visual expression.
- Express personal experiences and emotions through drawing and writing.
- Collaborate to create short dance sequences, songs, sound effects, and stories.
Key activities
- Freestyle dancing to slow and fast music, then creating a group dance message
- Practising a guided body scan and relaxation
- Drawing feelings to music and taking part in karaoke
- Adding instrumental sound effects to a story and composing a short song
- Filling a heart with written or drawn feelings and creating a group storybook
- Hunting, matching, and reading CVC words and composing numbers with dice, cards, manipulatives, and paper plates
You’ll need
recorded music and dance clips, balls, paper, crayons and pencils, microphone and karaoke list, bells, shakers, sticks and drums, storybooks, CVC and sight-word cards, dice and magnetic numbers, hoops, cups, baskets, paper plates and pom-poms
Structure: Extracted sections cover Days 3–5; days use Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, and Maths