How to Quickly Create a Dance Treasure Hunt Creative dance helps develop language, math and science skills through exploring sizes, shapes, colours and words. Dance is activity that explores patterns and sequences both recognising them and practicing remembering them. Counting
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I know what you’re going to ask. Why would you want to play this game? It’s fun and kids love it. It can set the focus for the lesson if you spotlight the learning. You can check on prior learning
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The Dance Lesson Formula Every dance lesson begins in the planning stage. At university, planning one lesson seems to take forever! With experience this gets easier as we develop our own ‘formula’ for putting a lesson together. But what
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Responding in dance as a part of the Australian Curriculum is often difficult for students and teachers alike. Many people think there are definitive answers to the questions that are a component of these dance activities. More important than being
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A dance activity is a planned or facilitated series of movement problems that are solved by the participants. The dancers use their body in a wide range of ways to move, alone or with others, in a rhythmical or irregular
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Primary teachers are always looking for practical ways to implement the arts in a student-centred classroom. Here are five ways to ensure that your dance lesson is not only engaging and rewarding for your students, but that it embodies the
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When creating dance lessons for your Primary classroom you ultimately want what’s best for your students and what is able to be achieved within the constraints of time, space and your personal capabilities. The best Primary dance lessons will look
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Many primary school teachers and even dance specialists have questions about how to make the Elements of dance accessible to their primary students. The concept seems easy enough, but even a quick look on the internet will reveal that there
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Turn your primary classroom’s brain breaks into a dance party. Movement in the Primary classroom is generally undervalued. It is seen as the light refreshment in the smorgasbord of learning. Many teachers use the promise of being able to move
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Musical play holds a special role in the early childhood classroom as well as in the home. Even as adults we remember the music and action songs of our childhood and often pass them down through the generations. Now research
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