• Artistic Perception: 1.4 Performs movements in response to oral instructions
• Creative Expression: 2.1 Create movements that reflect a variety of personal experiences

• Students will develop skills in communicating through physical movement (pantomime-dance)

• Children’s Book about Feelings

• Dance: pantomime- mime

• (Engage students, access prior learning, review, hook or activity to focus the student for learning) Arrange the classroom space so that students can see everyone’s faces. Say “Today we will learn how to speak without words using our faces and body movements” Read Aloud a book about Feelings. Tell the students we can communicate feelings without using words.

• (Presentation of new material, demonstration of the process, direct instruction) Say “I will Pantomime or use facial expressions and body movement. I will then point to a student who will tell us what I am feeling or saying”. Wave with a smile on your face. Point to a student. (The student says “hello” or “You’re happy”). Then frown and pretend to cry (a student should say “you’re sad”). Finally, skip with a smile on your face (a student should say you’re happy, excited…”). Say “I’m going to pretend to do something. I am going to pantomime. You must guess what I am trying to communicate with pantomime.” Pantomime a feeling such as anger, ask students to try to figure out what you are feeling. When you have finished each pantomime, ask students “how did you know?”

• (Application of knowledge, problem solving, corrective feedback) Tell the students that they will now do a pantomime.. Tell them to pretend that they are sad. Then, give the students the following prompts. (Give them a few seconds to adjust to each new feeling):
• You are very happy.
• You are so mad you could scream.
• You are confused.
• You are surprised.
• When you have finished the exercise, ask the students to talk about what kinds of things they did to show the different feelings? What facial expressions did they used? What body movements did they do? Present students with different scenarios, ask them to show you with their facial expressions and body movements how they would feel in that situation.

• (Identify problems encountered, ask and answer questions, check for understanding, assess) Closure Have students think about a time when they felt happy, sad, and/or surprised. Ask them to tell their partner how they moved their body or changed their facial expressions in those situations. Assessment: Ask each student to think of a feeling that could be communicated without words. Have students show that feeling in front of their peers and have them guess what they are feeling and why they guessed that feeling.

• (Expectations created by the teacher that encourage students to participate in further research, make connections, and apply understanding and skills previously learned to personal experiences) Encourage children to express their feelings in their journals and through their art projects.

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May 17, 2012