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CONTENTS Contents - Page 1 Introduction - Page 2 Objectives Time Two Realities A Personal Thought Pilawuk Seconds: Page 4 Embodying Seconds Seconds Sequence Henry’s Heart beat Minutes: Page 5 One minute Song Resting Heart-Rate Active Heart-Rate Counting Game Balloon Olympics: Page 6 Sticky Balloons Balloon Twirling Balloon Bouncing Balloon Tennis Balloon Passing Balloon Bouncing Circle Game Game Creation #1 Game creation #2 How Long: Page 9 Cup Challenge Cup Game Paper Walking Rocket Balloons Balloon Rocket Race Balloon Powered Helicopters Balloon Powered Rocket Cars Balloon Bust County to Twenty What and When: Page 13 Lists Time and Lists Variations Book Time: Page 15 Appendixes: Page 17 Appendix 1 – Here and Now (song lyrics) Appendix 2 – One Minute Song (song lyrics) Appendix 3 – The Story of Henry’s Heart Appendix 4 – Twenty Minute Song (song lyrics) Credits/Contacts: Page 22 Full Play Package details with downloads are available online: http://www.patchtheatre.org.au/hdda.htm 1
INTRODUCTION Objectives Our Hickory Dickory Dock Play Package objectives are: • For children to be engaged in meaningful interactions with other children requiring thinking, sharing, negotiating, empathising, hypothesising and testing in the context of creative and playful explorations around the theme of time. • For our activities to be a springboard for broader, open-ended explorations that, with support and encouragement from teachers, will allow children to unravel some of the mysteries and magic of our temporal existence. Time We invite you to turn your class into a time capsule and your children into time travelers dedicated to exploring the wonders of time in both creative and practical ways. At the heart of our project is a celebration of the adventure of learning and the encouragement of both logical and magical thinking by children. The richness of that adventure for children is a measure of how inspiring and supportive we as educators can be. For every dilemma Henry Horatio Richard O’Dockerty confronts in Hickory Dickory Dock, there is a supportive adult – be it teacher, parent or grandparent encouraging exploration, provoking responses, asking questions, seeking meaning, beckoning adventure. Our challenge is to have children take a journey akin to Henry's. Two Realities Children's lives have two realities. One is the temporal, pragmatic, moment by moment reality, where they are driven by activity, squeezed by demands, guided by schedules, dictated to by time-lines and shunted to and fro by the day-to-day demands of their lives… a place where time matters. The other is their world of dreams and imaginings. This is their place of play and ideas; of art and creativity... the place of magic and fantasy... a place where time dissolves. Many children learn and develop most effectively in environments where they are encouraged to function like artists making art. In these artistic environments they are engaged in meaningful and open-ended explorations of themes or ideas within a framework, whose scaffolding is supported by teacher initiated activities. This is an environment where both logical and creative thinking are equally valued; where the temporal and imaginative realms of a child co-exist. This is the place from which our play package for Hickory Dickory Dock has evolved. 2
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