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Imagination Baskets
Last week when I was teaching first position arms., I saw that the roundness and placement of their arms were a little droopy. I had a major idea, and thought I would share it with you in case your...
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Handshake & High Five Dance
This month on the blog I will be covering Friendship! I’m planning on doing the theme friendship for my end of the year “dance celebration” so I thought this would be the perfect month to talk, sing,...
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Hamantaschen Cookie Dance
This weekend is Purim! A Jewish Holiday that is celebrated by eating cookies called Hamantaschen. You know I’m always looking for ideas that we can dance about in everything, so I thought this might...
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Create A Workout Dance
Read It. Move It. Share It. is a collaboration with Kerry from Picture Books and Pirouettes. Once a month Kerry recommends a book for me to use in my creative movement classes. Then I write a post on...
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Partner A and Partner 1
This past week with my 4’s, 5’s, and 6’s I did a lesson on body parts + connected shapes! My littles were fascinated by it and so very creative! It’s a really great focusing exercise and also promotes...
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Toy Machine
One of my littles favorite dances is the Toy Maker/Toy Shop Dance. They practically beg me to do it. It’s a great dance and I love it too, but sometimes it’s just great to add something new to the...
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“Coloring In”
“Today we are going to do coloring!” The crowd roars “yay!” And then I explain, “not coloring on paper, coloring with our bodies!” Cue the puzzled look! Here’s what we did… This works best with 4, 5,...
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Traveling Improvisation
Last week I decided I would give my 5, 6, and 7 year olds a major challenge. We have done connecting body parts before and they have loved it, but this time I thought it would be fun to have them...
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Setting The Thanksgiving Table
Full Disclosure: This drawing is not my best work… but you get the idea! I have always loved Thanksgiving. It’s a special holiday for me, I’m not sure why, I just love it. AND I love dancing about...
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Shapes Matching Game
Have you played the card matching game? I used to love that game when I was a kid, I was pretty good at it too! This week in class I tried a matching shapes game with my students ages 5-7 and it was...
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