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Start the New Year with dance in your classroom

Kym Articles, Dance Activities January 12, 2023January 12, 2023
Dance in the classroom

The New Year offers a fresh start after a holiday break.  This is an opportunity to get to know your students better and try new things in the classroom that you may not have tried before.  If you haven’t tried

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9 Children’s Dance books for Christmas

Kym Articles December 14, 2022December 14, 2022
Christmas dance books

  These are suggestions for some last-minute children’s presents for the holidays.  These book suggestions could also be great resources for dance teachers for the New Year. They combine dance with a variety of cultural and life skills themes. Book

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Bringing dance into Early Years outdoor play

Kym Articles, Dance for Early Childhood November 3, 2022
dance play outdoors

Outdoor dance play can be helpful for preschoolers learning to pay attention and control their behaviour.  Recent research suggests that preschoolers are more likely to follow routines and rules in indoor activities when these activities follow outdoor play (Koepp et

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Best Seasonal Books for Dance Activities

Kym Articles, Dance Activities, Dance for Early Childhood October 14, 2022
Seasons Dance

Primary school teachers are always looking for ways to include the natural world as a key part of their teaching.  Using the current Season as a theme or a Big Idea, whether it is to celebrate a holiday or to draw attention to

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A Quick Guide to the Dance Element of Space

Kym Articles, Dance Activities September 28, 2022
Shape in Primary Dance

While all the Dance Elements are interconnected, Space is perhaps the most crucial in its relationship to each of the other elements.  Teaching about Space in Primary school dance lessons can be overwhelming and seem complex. Keeping it simple is

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Performing Primary School Dance: Pluses & Pitfalls

Kym Articles, Lesson Planning, Warm up - Dance Game September 6, 2022
Performing Primary Dance

Performing dance in Primary/Elementary classrooms can be an exciting and positive experience.  But like all good lessons or projects in schools you need to plan for success. Many children and adults have very adverse experiences with performing.  This includes speaking,

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Dance ideas to celebrate Book Week in your classroom.

Kym Articles August 25, 2022December 14, 2022
book week dance

Are you looking for ways to celebrate Book Week in your Primary classroom?  Have you ever thought about using dance to explore your student’s celebration of literacy. As a young mother I was particularly enthusiastic about creating costumes for my

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The role of the dance teacher in the Primary classroom

Kym Articles, Lesson Planning August 18, 2022
the role of the dance teacher

The image of a dance teacher may be of the expert standing in front of a class, and the class mirroring their exact movements.  However, in reality, the dance teacher takes on many different roles in the Primary/Elementary school classroom.

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What are Dynamics in the dance? How we move.

Kym Articles, Dance Activities August 12, 2022August 15, 2022
Dynamics in dance

Dynamics in dance is the interaction between force and time that results in action in the dancer’s body. It is sometimes referred to as one of the Elements of Dance.  It is HOW we move. However, around the world the

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Lesson Openers: 5 Dance ideas to engage your students

Kym Articles, Dance Activities August 1, 2022August 23, 2022
lesson openers for Primary school

Lesson openers are short dance activities to spark interest and build excitement and curiosity for your lesson.  These could be thought of as a dance warm up, however they often provide a mental and physical preparation for learning. They are

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