Rhythms & Dance
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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: Dunham School
Activity Grade Level
The Water Dance K
Equipment Needs
  • Music: Any music that changes pace from fast to slow; or relaxing water sounds
  • Flash cards/posters with seasons depicted on them
  • CD Player/Tape recorder
Facility/Playground Needs Classroom or blacktop
Lesson Objective (Psychomotor and/or Cognitive):

Creative dance. Exploring body movements through different levels, pathways,and time.

Teaching Hints:

The teacher may change the seasons around throughout activity, but it helps to reinforce the seasonal changes in order.

Description:

Introduce the four seasons to the students and ask the students about the different seasonal temperatures (use flash cards/ pictures to help them). Have students spread out within a circle of cones or other boundary. The dance begins by having students pretend they are frozen like ice in the winter time, then have them melt and move into spring, then be a raging river in summer, and then slow down and become a pond for the fall, and freeze over again for winter. Be sure to tell the students to move at different levels and on different pathways *review them with students if necessary during intro).

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