Key Stage: 1

Description

BBC School Radio Broadcast - 7 episodes

Episode length - 20 mins Movement and dance series for children aged 4-6.

NB: If you would like to keep this collection until January, to enable you to use it in the final week of Autumn term, please note this on your request and we will be happy to collect it when our driver visits your school in the Spring term. 

Unit 1 - The Nutcracker

A unit for Christmas based on ETA Hoffman's traditional story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, accompanied throughout by Tchaikovsky's music from his ballet score The Nutcracker written in 1892.

1 - Christmas Eve

2 - The Battle with the Mouse King

3 - The Land of Sweets Unit 2 - Twas the Night Before Christmas

Winter scenes of snowflakes and Christmas trees establish the festive context. The children become the inhabitants of the Christmas house, witnessing the arrival of St Nicholas. They create dance sequences in which they see him arrive and ride as reindeer through the sky.

1 - A Sleigh Full of Toys

2 - Happy Christmas to All!

Unit 3 - Journey of the Magi A two-part unit concentrating on the journey of the Magi - the Three Kings - on their way to find the Baby Jesus in the Christmas story.

1 - In Search of Baby Jesus

2 - Gifts for a King