Dancing Animals

Topic: Animals

Vocabulary: Bird, butterfly, fish, rabbit

Relating Wonderland Units: Wonderland Pre-junior, Unit 4; Wonderland Junior A, Unit 1 & 9; Wonderland Junior B, Unit 4 & 6.

The children sit facing outward in a circle. Go round the circle, naming the children as animals: "Bird, butterfly, fish, rabbit. Bird, butterfly, fish, rabbit. Bird, butterfly." etc.

Call out "Birds!" and the bird children stand up and dance around the outside of the circle like birds - their hands held up to their noses like beaks, or their arms outstretched like wings.

Say "Go home!" and the children dance back to their place in the circle.

Do the same with the other animals. The butterflies flutter their arms like wings, the fish mouth 'O's as if blowing bubbles, and the rabbits jump.