Lesson Plan - Lauren

 Style: Ballet

Level: Grade 1

Instructor: Lauren Tierney

Date: November 16, 2022

Time: 1-1:30pm

Component: Movement Skills and Underlying Principles

Objectives: Demonstrates locomotor skills: walking, running, leaping, jumping, hopping, skipping, sliding, galloping, rolling, crawling.

Competency: The student can solve a movement problem by using three levels of space (low, middle, high) to demonstrate straight and curved pathways, and at least three body shapes.

Overview: This class will focus on teaching basic steps in ballet by relating each motion to a typical day at the beach.

Warm-Up

Plies: Students will warm-up the joints of the legs by performing grand plies. When going down into the plie, students will scoop their arms as though they are grabbing a bunch of sand. As they stretch up, they will move their arms as though they are carrying the sand and placing it onto a sandcastle to form a tower. This will be repeated four times. Finally, the students will go down into a plie again to pick up a flag and releve at the top of their stretch to place the flag at the top of the sandcastle.

Rond de Jambes: Students will warm-up their feet by performing rond de jambes. They will push their feet forward through the sand and swing it around their body as if creating a moat around their sandcastle. This will be performed four times for each side, en dedans and en dehors.

Across the Floor

Walks: Students will practice their ballet walks by slowly walking across the floor as though they are pushing through the waves of the ocean.

Galloping: Students will practice their gallops by going across the floor as if they are running across the beach.

Leaping: Students will practice shifting their weight from one foot to another in a jump by pretending to leap over sharp shells on the beach.

Center

Improv: Students will think of their favorite activity to do at the beach and perform one motion to represent that activity to the class.

End

Reverence: Students will learn how to reverence by shifting their weight to one side and raising their arm as if to say goodbye to the hot sun. They will then bend over to dust the sand off their feet.

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