The flow of the pose!

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I was amazed at our last session and all the great balancing poses that Professor Marie Murphy encouraged us to try. I had photographed the children and printed the images then cut them out to create simple shape silhouettes. As well as these poses I used some of the balancing tests we tried on my first visit to meet the class back in October. Then the children tried balancing with friends together…

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My pictures and cut outs were cut short so needed me to fill in the parts of missing bodies… part of heads etc so these were scribbled in in pencil to make the shape.
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The cut out shapes are isolated on a plain background to see it clearly.

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Our task today was to OBSERVE the shapes of the poses and look for lines of balance… So we used Mrs Hughes green broomstick  to hold up against the pose to see how straight and upright the person stood or to see what angles their bodies made…

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We also used the sticks to notice where exactly the head position was IN RELATION TO the feet..

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Look at where the head is in this pose!
Look at where the head is in this pose!

Then we reminded ourselves of how far we could lean over before we would fall over…

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We looked back at the balancing poses…

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We then tried to OBSERVE and SIMPLIFY the shape of the pose and DRAW it using the SCRIBBLE TECHNIQUE:

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I tried this while the children worked in their classroom
I tried this while the children worked in their classroom

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We looked back again at the CHINESE script symbols from the beginning of our explorations on balance and made a strong connection between WRITING and DRAWING...
We looked back again at the CHINESE script symbols from the beginning of our explorations on balance and made a strong connection between WRITING and DRAWING…

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Look at the fabulous drawings the children made using black paint and brushes…

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