Year 1 Dance: my moves, my brilliant body worksheet

“Still and travelling actions” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 PE unit “Dance: my moves, my brilliant body”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 10 to 12 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Still and travelling actions

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · PE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell still actions from travelling actions, and say if they are high or low.

A Look back3 min

Quick check from earlier PE lessons.

1.
Before a game, what do we do to get our bodies ready? Circle one.
Warm upLie downEat a big snack
2.
When we stop running, what should we do? Circle one.
Slow down safelyCrash into a friendKeep running at the wall
3.
How do you feel after a lively game? Circle one.
Warm and out of breathFrozen solidHolding your breath

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali is in the garden. He balances, then he hops to the cone.

Watch me

Two orange cones and a soft ball on a clear patch of grass

Balancing stays in one place. It is a still action.

A hop carries you to a new place. It is a travelling action.

Ask yourself: do I end up somewhere new?

Now you

1.
Sam rolls across the mat. Still or travelling? Circle one.
still actiontravelling action
2.
Mia curls up small on the mat. Still or travelling? Circle one.
still actiontravelling action

C Your turn8 min

Clear space, soft ball, away from windows. A grown-up watches.

A blue exercise mat with a soft ball on it in a clear room

1.
Write 1 to 4 in the boxes to put the roll in order.
1. Stand up tall and stop
2. Roll slowly across the mat
3. Lie on your side on the mat
4. Tuck your chin and curl up
2.
Join each action to the coaching point that helps most.
curlbalancestretchhop
push off and land softlyreach your fingers fartuck in smallhold still on one leg
3.
Sort these actions into the right column.
balancehopstretchrollcurlskip
Still action Travelling action
4.
Balance on one leg while a grown-up counts to 10. Do this three times. Make a tally mark for each try you held still.

Say it out loud: Which actions stayed in one place? Which ones moved you across the space?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A single cone standing ahead on a clear floor

Ola says: “When you balance, look at your feet so you don't wobble.”

1.
How could Ola balance better?

E Think deeper3 min

A low step and a high garden wall with a soft ball at the bottom

1.
Make up a new action. Say if it is high or low.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Still and travelling actions · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Warm up If your child circles lie down, ask what the body needs before a game. Then point to the chain.

2. Slow down safely

3. Warm and out of breath

B

1. travelling action If your child says still, ask whether Sam ended up somewhere new. Point to the last box in the chain.

2. still action If your child says travelling, ask: did Mia move to a new place? She stayed put, so it is a still action.

C

1. 1 Lie on your side on the mat · 2 Tuck your chin and curl up · 3 Roll slowly across the mat · 4 Stand up tall and stop If the roll starts with standing, ask what happens first. The body must be on the mat before it rolls.

2. curl → tuck in small; balance → hold still on one leg; stretch → reach your fingers far; hop → push off and land softly If your child joins balance to reach far, say the words again. Ask what the body does on one leg.

3. Still action: balance, stretch, curl · Travelling action: hop, roll, skip If a card like roll ends in the still column, ask whether the body moved to a new place.

4. Look for: A tally mark for each try where the child held the balance still to 10.

D

1. Look for: says to look at a fixed spot ahead, not down at the feet If your child says look at the feet, that is the same mistake. Ask where the eyes should go.

E

1. Look for: A named action with a high or low level, said out loud.

Words to use

Say“Which action stayed in one place? Which one took you somewhere new?”

Instead of“Just do it properly, like I showed you.”

After the sheet

At home, call out Still or Travelling, then your child does the action. Use clear space, a soft ball, and a grown-up watching.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Sharing the room safely(with a plan)
Fast, slow and in between(with a plan)
Moving together with a partner(with a plan)
My moves and me(with a plan)
My brilliant body sequence(with a plan)

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