When you come to the class and meet your friends do you see different expressions on your friends’ faces? In Grade 4, you have learnt about various emotions and learnt to expressing them. We have also seen that different emotions are felt in different situations, whether they are positive situations or sometimes not very desirable situations. You can always express various emotions through dance, enacting desirable or not so desirable situations. Dance gives you a medium of experiencing and expressing what you feel.

Do you believe or experience that eyes are the mirror of our feelings? Try expressing the following emotions using coordinated eye and eyebrow movements with hand gestures.

Choose partners, discuss one pleasant emotion and one emotion that has been disturbing for you. Enact the emotions to your friend explaining the situation.

Try to be aware and use your eyes and hand gestures. Identify the senses that have been used for the emotion. Now, team up with other friends and make a story creatively with the situations and emotions expressed.

Discuss the above activities in class and draw your emotions and share.

Example: You can collect bottle caps and draw your emotions or emojis on the cap. Share and exchange the emotion caps with your friends.

Note to Teacher:Any material can be used for drawing emotions.

Dupatta is used as peacock feather

Use of rubber bands like a puppets dancing

Props are used by many dance forms in the country. Some of the props include, sticks of Garba dance from Gujarat, bamboo poles of Cheraw dance from Mizoram, etc. You must have seen other props being used when you were looking at dances from different regions in earlier activities. Props are also used in dance to help in choreography.

You can also use imaginary props. Many Indian dance forms have sequences where playing with the ball is shown with an imaginary ball. For example, the Panthattam of Mohiniattam or the Kanduk khel of Manipuri.

Do you know about the five senses? seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling. Wherever you are or in everyday life, you use these senses.

Let us match the senses with seasons, actions and expressions of dance. Select a story or song of nature from your region. Now, explore your emotions with the senses in the story.

Note down below:
What do you see?
What do you hear?
What do you smell?
What do you taste?
What do you feel on your body?

Add in suitable dance steps with arm movements, relevant hand gestures, eye movements and expressions to show all the above senses.

Now, dance this story sequence using emotions, eyes and eyebrows, arm movements, hand gestures, steps, jumps, spins and different tempos. Decide on the music you will use for this. You can make up a song with your story using musical notes learnt in music class or beats using a drum or sticks

Formative Assessment

Teacher’s observations: