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PHYSICAL

EDUCATION II
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
OBJECTIVES OF RHYTHMIC
ACTIVITIES
1. Develop skills necessary for recreational
enjoyment.
2. Maintain good posture and physical
efficiency.
3. Promote emotional freedom.
4. Develop a balanced and well-coordinated
body.
WHAT IS RHYTHM?
■a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or
sound.
■the systematic arrangement of musical sounds,
principally according to duration and periodic
stress.
■a regularly recurring sequence of events, actions,
or processes.
■the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented
beats.
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
■are the physical manifestations of the
mental and emotional response of the
individual to rhythm.
■they are activities which a child responds
to physically, socially, and mentally to
regular patterns of sound.
■they are also a source of enjoyment for
people of all ages.
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
■through these activities, skills and the sense of
rhythm are acquired and developed, feelings
are expressed, basic principles of time, space
and force can be experienced.
■everyone reacts to music or rhythm in one form
or another. A head swaying, a
foot tapping, fingers snapping, shoulders and
body moving while a musical piece is
played are physical reactions.
DANCE
WHAT IS DANCE?
■Move rhythmically to music, typically
following a set sequence of steps.
■It refers to movement set to music where
there emerges
organization, structure and pattern.
■It is a composition that implies arrangement
of parts into a form.
WHAT IS DANCING?
■is a means of expressing one’s emotions through
movement disciplined by rhythm.
■It is an act of moving rhythmically and
expressively to an accompaniment.
■The word dancing came from an old German word
“danson” which means to “stretch”.
■Essentially, all dancing is made up of stretching
and relaxing.
THE BASIC
NATURAL
MOVEMENTS
LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS
■are those that move the body in space in any
direction with the feet as the moving base.
Examples:

•Walking
•Running •Skipping
•Jumping •Leaping
•Hopping • Galloping
and Sliding
NON-LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS

■Are those in which various parts of the


body move in space with a fixed base.
■The base may be standing, kneeling,
sitting or lying.
Examples:
1. Flexion--- Bending or
shortening of a body part
occurring at a joint.
2. Extension—Turning,
twisting or circling
3. Pendular---- Swinging/
swaying arms forward,
backward or sideward.
4. Percussive—Striking
and hitting: pushing and
pulling.
5. Vibratory----- Shaking
and beating.
RHYTHMIC
FUNDAMENTALS
ELEMENTS OF RHYTHM
1.Beat—the underlying pulse of a rhythm.
2.Tempo—rate of speed of a movement.
3.Intensity—variation of stress of
movement.
4.Pitch—lowness or highness of a tone.
5.Accent—emphasis on certain beats.
6.Meter—the regular recurrence of beats
which divides a musical design into
measure.
ELEMENTS OF RHYTHM
7. Phrase—measures 11. Measure—a group of
grouped together. pulse beats.
8. Bar—in music a vertical 12. Note pattern—refers
to a note or set of notes
line across a staff dividing it
with or without rest used
into equal measures of time.
9. Count—a pulse beat, a for a certain dance step.
time limit. 13. Step pattern—refers
10. Note—a printed symbol to the movement or
of a musical tone. movements done for each
of the dance steps.
ELEMENTS OF MOVEMENT SPACE

1.Direction—is the line of


movement taken which maybe
forward, backward, sideward,
diagonal, upward, or a
combination of those mentioned
ELEMENTS OF MOVEMENT SPACE

2. Level—is movement through


space that maybe done at a high,
low, or medium level.
ELEMENTS OF MOVEMENT SPACE

3. Range—refers to the area covered


as the body moves. It maybe small as
when the movement is done in one’s
place; or large when movement
covers a wide area as when getting
away from one’s place.
ELEMENTS OF MOVEMENT SPACE

4. Floor Pattern—the path or


design that is made while moving in
space is what is termed as floor
pattern. It may take a form of a
circle, square, straight line or zigzag.
MOVEMENT QUALITIES
1. TIME QUALITIES
 Movement which is fast
Ex. Galloping horse
 Movement which is slow
Ex. Turtle and flower growing
MOVEMENT QUALITIES
2. FORCE QUALITIES
 Soft light movement
Ex. Fairies and butterflies
 Strong, heavy movement
Ex. Elephant
MOVEMENT QUALITIES
2. FORCE QUALITIES
 Strong, jerky movement
Ex. Frog
 Smooth, sustained movement
Ex. Airplane and fish swimming
MOVEMENT QUALITIES
3. SPACE QUALITIES
 Movement up and down
Ex. Bouncing ball and Yo-yo
 Movement across, back and
forth or around
Ex. Rowing boat
MOVEMENT QUALITIES
3. SPACE QUALITIES
 Movement which is low
Ex. Ants and turtles
 Movement which is high
Ex. Kites and clouds

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