Topic: My Body

Objective: I can move my body in many ways!
Vocabulary: level, size, space
Extensions: 

• Practice moving at a high and low levels like walking on tip top, crawling, galloping, rolling, etc. 

• Read a favorite story and ask the students to think about how the character moves. Have them embody the character by moving like the character on each page. Suggested book: Giraffes Can't Dance

Currently, media arts lessons are only offered in grades 3-5.

Topic: Echo & Call and Response
Objective: I can perform an echo and a call and response.
Vocabulary: echo; call and response
Extensions: 

• Practice echo (songs, clapping etc.). Example song: "Are You Sleeping"

• Review the book “Jump, Frog, Jump” by Robert Kalan, which we used in this lesson. This is call and response form - the question is the call, and the response is "jump, frog, jump." Have students say the response.

Topic: Imagination, Pantomime and the 5 Senses
Objective: I can use my imagination to experience the 5 senses.
Vocabulary: imagination, 5 senses, sense memory, pantomime
Extensions:

• Lead students through a pantomime of eating their favorite meal.  They have done this once, but repetition is your friend!  

• Read a story to the students, pausing for them to imagine how their 5 senses might be activated in different moments.  Even if the story does not specifically call our the senses, add them!  Ask what it might sound like or smell like in a specific setting. Have students imagine touching something in the story.  Add pantomime and dialogue as they get more practice.

Topic:  Composition
Objective: I can describe my drawing to a partner and create art that shows and an understanding of "On" and "In"
Vocabulary: character, setting , shape, line
Extensions: 

• Draw a different setting for the character that is "NOT" "NOT" "NOT" "NOT" a box

• Use lines and shapes to create a new design if you're wearing a box.