Artis | Alive, Awake, Alert, Enthusiastic

Alive, Awake, Alert, Enthusiastic is a super song to help refocus your group in mind and body particularly in the morning. Working on concentration, coordination, memory, participation and confidence. This activity can be adapted to all key stages and extended by asking the children for their own actions, taking away words in certain parts or all of the words and keeping the actions to work on pulse internalisation.

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Warm-up and body countdown

Body countdown can be used as warm up before physical activity and is an active way of practising countdown, subtraction and developing coordination. Body countdown can be easily adapted for KS1 or KS2 children and to different levels of ability.

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Clap and click: concentration and focus

Using a hand drum, teacher plays a rhythm and children clap it back. Then the skin and rim of the drum can be used and the children are asked to clap when they hear the skin and click when they hear the rim. To make the activity more challenging these can be switched round so the skin is a click and the rim a clap.

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The hello song: vocal and movement introduction

The hello song: an ideal introduction song perfect for EYFS and KS1. This fun warm up activity can be modified for any class, and is ideal for beginning a lesson. Children are required to repeat the words from this song as a good vocal introduction, using character, voice and movement. In this video Artis Specialist Helena Smith (Giggle) introduces the activity and explains this simple activity for you to try.

Key stage KS1, EYFS

Topic Drama, Warm up, Concentration, Teamwork, Music

Alive, Awake, Alert, Enthusiastic

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