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Workshop Plan June 23rd 2014

Planning workshops is important because it helps us to prepare for the day. Doing this gives us an idea of the structure of the day, whether it plans out the exact way or not. To me, having a workshop plan is important because from previous experiences, it sort of boosts my confidence as I feel that I know what I'm doing or what's coming next, also I believe that it'd make the others taking part in the workshop feel like that they are doing is worth the while, especially because this way things can be explained in more depth.

First hour plan:

Theme: Different Cultures

Warm Up for 10 minutes: 

• Stretches (5 minutes)
• Face warm-ups (5 minutes)
• Vocal warm ups (chewing gum exercises) Ranges in voices, sound scape (let children choose scenario) (7 minutes) 
• Games
• Culture Game - Choose a character from a specific culture and something that represents that culture/person and be able to portray that culture (can be a guessing game) ( 10 minutes)

Exercises 2nd Half Plan

•  Introduce a song to them - African Culture. (4 minutes)
• Physical exercises- movement - Forming a picture/still image as a group that relates to different cultures (countries) (If children want to) (10 - 15 minutes)
• Make still images come to life - make a rhythm to the beat/song (those who are less able can use an instrument with help of others) (15 minutes)