Materials for the lesson

A big round yellow cardboard.

Gymnastics mattresses

Any cd with classic music

A tambourine

Layout of the classroom

It is recommended to have this   lesson   on   the school stage or in an indoor gym.

The mattresses have been placed  in  a corner of the stage.

Phase 1

Teacher   and   the   students   have   been   moved   on   the school stage.

A   student   will   play   the   part   of   the   sun   and   the  teacher  places the yellow cardboard on student’s chest with a paper clip .The sun lies down on the middle of the stage.

Teacher  tells   to  the  students, that now the sun will rise and each student should thing what are people doing during the day and take off roles.

The music starts.

Phase 2

The sun slowly by slowly rises and the act begins. Each student   plays   its   part. One student wakes up and starts preparing for the school, while other which is a farmer turn up the soil and plans. Other, is driving in the traffic jam, or sunbathing on the sands, working in the office, going for shopping etc.

The   sun   goes   down   and   the   dark   takes   its   place. The theatre lights, go off and students lie down in mattresses to sleep. 

Phase 3

In this phase teacher suggests to students to  make  a  dialogue with the sun and ask  information  they want to learn about it. For example.

-Tell me sun, where are you going to sleep at nights;

-I   never   sleep.  When you are sleeping, I go to distant   countries to offer my light.

-How can you do this;

The   teacher   suggests   to    play   a   game    to   understand   how   is   this   happening.

The sun is going to be at the center of the stage again. The other students   become   couples   by   turning   their   backs   on   others    backs,    imitating  the  rotation  of  the  earth  round  its  axis . The couples turn around themselves and around the sun. When   they   hear   the   sound   of   tambourine,   the   students   that  see  the  face  of  the  sun  should  shout the word ‘’Day’’  and the others  that they don’t see the sun’s face should shout ‘’Night’’.

Phase 4

  The students return in the class. Teacher presents the course by explaining and combining the creative course with the known traditional form.  Through that play, the students   have   understand  the important role of the sun in our  daily life and the phenomenon of day and night.