Unit 9: Putting It Together 

LESSON 1: Body Language and Gestures
Age Group: 2-3 years old
Duration: 30 minutes

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Drama: Students will be able to integrate movement, speech, and expression to perform their roles with clarity and confidence.

2. Music: Students will be able to coordinate singing with simple movements, keeping steady rhythm and joining group song moments with confidence. 

3. Performance Readiness: Students will be able to face the audience, stay focused during group moments, and coordinate their actions smoothly with others on stage.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Fruit props (apples, oranges, lemons, etc.)  
2. Floor arrows or entrance markers
3. Assigned spot markers 
4. Narrator script 
5. Percussion instrument (chime or drum)
6. Sharing Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fq4YmYjzQ
7. Lesson PowerPoint:

REMARK: If possible, carry out this lesson on the actual stage or performance space to help children become familiar with entrances, center positions, and exits in the real environment.

LESSON PROCEDURES:
1. Warm-up (3 minutes)

• Invite children to form a circle.
• Guide singing of the Making Juice Song with designed movements to warm up voices. 
 

2. Introduce Today’s Focus: Body Language and Gestures (4 minutes)

• Invite children to watch a teacher demonstration of:  
  - walking with steady pace  
  - stopping at a spot  
  - turning to face the audience  
  - speaking clearly after stopping  
• Guide attention to how movement and speech connect smoothly.  
• Invite children to start the character roll call:  
  - When different Animal names are called, invite children to reply with a performing voice: “I am here.”  
  - Welcome children to explore different performing tones (calm, confident, excited) while saying “I am here.”

3. Practise Scene 1: Full Opening Sequence (20 minutes)

Entrance & Timing  
• Invite children to wait at the entrance zone.  
• Guide children to listen for the narrator cue: “Here comes the Bear Family.”  
• Invite children to walk slowly on the rhythm of “Walk, walk, walk…”  
• Guide children to follow floor arrows and stay in a straight line. 


Stopping & Facing the Audience  
• Invite children to stop at their assigned speaking spots.  
• Guide children to turn their bodies toward the audience.  
• Invite children to hold still bodies before speaking.  


Stopping & Facing the Audience  
• Invite children to stop at their assigned speaking spots.  
• Guide children to turn their bodies toward the audience.  
• Invite children to hold still bodies before speaking.  Stopping & Facing the Audience  
• Invite children to stop at their assigned speaking spots.  
• Guide children to turn their bodies toward the audience.  
• Invite children to hold still bodies before speaking.  

Discovery Moment  
• Invite children to listen for the narrator cue:  “Look! Coconuts!”  
• Guide children to freeze and look down with expressive faces.  
• Invite children to deliver “Coconuts!” with clear tone while staying still.  
• Guide children to maintain open posture after speaking.  

Ending the Scene 
• Invite children to nod excitedly when the narrator says:  “They want to make juice.”  
• Guide children to hold their final pose facing the audience.  



4. Cool Down (2 minutes)

• Invite children to return to circle.  
• Lead soft breathing and gentle stretching.  

 

ASSESSMENT:

- Assess ability to follow narrator cues.  
- Evaluate audience‑facing posture and stillness during discovery.  
- Monitor expressive delivery of introduction and discovery lines.