Rhythms & Dance
The Bear Went Over the Mountain - USA Popcorn
The Old Brass Wagon The Hustle
The Water Dance Seven Jumps
Square Scramble Toss to the Beat!
Talking Drum Make it Up
Pop Goes the Weasel-Great Britain Tokyo Dontaku- Obon
The Bunny Hop - USA Rocking the Jukebox
The Mexican Hat Dance - Mexico Add-on Line Dancing
Agadu-International/Israeli Whoomp Dance
Sevivon-Israel (Hanukah dance) Soul Walk
Bongo-Trinidad and West Africa 5, 6, 7, 8 Line Dance
Paddle Dance/French-Canadian Stayin' Alive
The Rhythm Sticks The Rebel Strut
The Storm Bus Stop
Fly, Butterfly, Fly! Celebration
Shape Up! Syrtos Dance
Barnereinlender- Norse Dance Tinikling
Santa in a Red Canoe-Hawaii Tsakonikos Dance Ancient Greek
Hula-Hula-Hoopla! Electric Slide
Move With Me! Men in Black Line Dance
Streamers Galore Shortenin' Bread Shuffle
The Heat is On The Rise
Yan Petit-Southern France 6 Tush Push

PPEP-PALS Lesson Sharing
Teacher & School: Rebekah Martinez-River Oak Charter School
Activity Grade Level
Paddle Dance/French-Canadian K - 6
Equipment Needs Paddle, CD player and CD with music accompaniment.
Facility/Playground Needs Space for group movement and dance.
Lesson Objective (Psychomotor and/or Cognitive):

Group coordination, social development, dance and rhythmic movement.
Teaching Hints:

Practice the pattern several times before putting on music. Make decisions quickly, to keep dance moving. Plan ahead on ways to dance down the middle. Move up a space or two in the lines when people peel off the top. Clap with the music to encourage dancers. Try to keep lines the same length, even if genders get mixed.
Description:
  1. The first person from one line (doesn't matter which) takes the paddle or other object and sits in the center chair (or stands) between two lines.
  2. The first and second people from the other line sit (or stand) on either side of the paddle person who hands the paddle to one of them and dances with the other between the two lines to the bottom, where they go to the end of their own lines. How they dance depends on the skill level, lesson plan, social sophistication, etc.-skip, gallop, slide, polka, and so on. Could be a chance for creativity.
  3. The person left with the paddle moves to the middle chair (or stands in the middle) and the two top people from the opposite-gender line come on either side. Now this paddle person gets to choose.
  4. Sometimes the paddle person may choose a dance with both, handing the paddle to the next appropriate participant.
Alternatives/Modifications

Modify depending on age group.
Reference www.FolkStyle.com Favorite Folk Dances: Syllabus No. 2 by Sanna Longden