Oh Noah!

I have been working on some of the story of Noah’s Ark with reception class, Miss Spiers, Ms Brown, Ms Thorn and Louise. I think Miss Spears has come up with a great name for our performance when she sent me an email with the heading ‘Oh Noah!’; I think we should keep that.

While Louise has been making a Battenberg Boat, I have been exploring some of Noah’s story in movement.

We have had fun trying to move like water: splashing, dripping, flowing, rippling, cascading… In fact any words you can think of, we’ve had a go at doing our best impressions of them with our bodies.

We have looked at little scenes from Noah’s story and made movement games out of them: we’ve played at being puddles and making big splashes when anyone stamps in the puddle and we’ve played at being a piece of wood or metal that someone has to shape and sculpt into being a boat.

From our games, we have made a dance story about Noah’s Ark. It goes something like this:

Scene 1 – "It’s raining!" - The rains start to fall and everyone gets wet, has to take cover, gets very angry at all the rain and splashes about in puddles;

Scene 2 – “Lets build a boat” – The boat builders have to cut, lift, rub, chop, pull and push to get their boat built. When the boat builders finish building, hopefully (fingers crossed) the Battenberg Ark will appear magically in the middle of the dance!

Scene 3 – “The waters are rising” – The Sea starts to rise, blue waters all around, the waves getting bigger and bigger;

Scene 4 – “The animals process two by two” – Elephants, giraffes, tigers, frogs, horses and many more all seek shelter two by two on the Ark;

Scene 5 – “When will we go home?” – Water, water, all around, blue waves all topped with foam. When will it all disappear, so we can all go home? At last the seas subside and everyone can celebrate. The End!

Everyone has worked really hard on our dance and I hope everyone has enjoyed it too. After half term the class will carry on rehearsing the dance with Miss Spears so that we can show it to the school and parents on our Sharing Day in June.

I’m afraid I don’t have any photos, but I know that Miss Spears does, so hopefully she and reception class may add some soon…

Amanda (Choreographer)