Movement skills/concepts
Walking to a rhythm and working with others (relationships).
Set-up
- Marching music.
- A defined hard or grass area with an end line and a baseline.
- Children in pairs: partners stand at opposite sides of the area, facing the end line. A caller stands on the baseline.
Activity
Caller: Come down the centre in twos.
Each child marches to meet their partner at the end line. As a pair meets, they turn and march down the centre of the area to the baseline.
Caller: Two right and two left.
The first pair turns to the right, the second to the left, and so on.
Caller: Come down the centre in fours.
When the two lead pairs meet at the end line, they walk four abreast down the centre.
Caller: Four right and four left.
Children divide again, with four children to the right and four to the left.
Caller: Come down the centre in eights.
When lines of four meet again at the end line, they join together to form a line of eight abreast.
Variations
Work in fours: Come down the centre in fours, separate into pairs, form arches or go ‘over and under’.
