The Elves and the Shoemakers Learning Resource - Theatre ...

Objective
Foundation Stage: Lesson Plan 1
Link to Curriculum Framework:
Communication and Language;
Expressive and Aesthetic Development;
Emotional, Personal and Social; Physical Development and Movement
Learning activity: Dramatising, animated
story-telling with associated activites
Duration: Three sessions, 30 minutes each
The children will respond to a series of events in the story using their bodies.
Method
Children use their imaginations to react in a real way, supported by craft and creative communication
activities.
Session 1: Warm Up Activity
Make yourself as big as you can, as small as you can, as tall as you can, as wide as you can.
Main Activity
• Re-tell the story from the performance of The Elves and the Shoemaker to the children.
• Ask the children how very old people stand and move around. Ask the children to move
around the space as if they were the old man and the old woman.
• The old man and the old woman were cold. It was wintertime and they had no wood for
their fire. What clothes do you put on to keep you warm when you play outside in the
winter? List the children’s ideas.
• Ask them to pretend they are in bed, then they get up and get dressed to go outside to play
in the snow. Ask them to show how they put on all the clothes they need to keep warm
Follow Up Activity
Children cut out/colour the clothes they would wear to play in the snow in winter - sheets provided.
Session 2: Warm Up Activity
Make yourself as big as you can, as small as you can, as tall as you can, as wide as you can.
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