Creating dance is a way to teach children about creative and divergent thinking, design principles, and developing an artistic product. It is a way to celebrate each child’s unique way of experiencing art. Choreography in primary school dance presents teachers
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Thanksgiving is great time to be grateful for the natural world around us. In this way it is in keeping with native American traditional celebrations that took place at the harvest time before winter. However, some of the dance activities
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Celebrating Christmas with young children is a wonderful way to learn about being a good friend. Gift giving comes second to being generous in spirit. Jack Johnson version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is a lovely way for children
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These Halloween Dance activities are based around the history of Halloween. It encourages children to research the history of different celebrations and explore their own family traditions around Halloween.
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In this lesson the children create a dance that represents the sentiments of the International Day address. The lesson is based on two examples of the Address, from 2004 and 2003, that are representative of the sentiments for the dancers,
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Using dance as an integral part of the primary/elementary curriculum has met with some resistance from teachers over the years. Fear around teaching the art form correctly can stop generalist teachers from even ‘dipping their toes in the water’. However,
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I am often asked questions by teachers wanting to use more dance in their classrooms. Many are wanting to integrate dance into their existing lessons rather than teaching a discrete dance lesson. This article looks at the five most asked
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This dance lesson is a series of activities for students in the early years. They explore several of the Dance Elements that are common to Dance and PE curriculums from K-2.
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Creative dance in your primary/elementary classroom has probably already been student centred in approach. However, in these times of great upheaval in education as a result of the pandemic, shifting the agency for learning towards the student has never been
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Does dance improve reading and build on an enthusiasm for reading? This does seem like a strange connection but many of the skills of dance and reading are similar. There are many linguistic connections to dance. The creative processes for
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