Creative Dance

Introduction to Our Dance

This movement sequence is based on a story written by a eight year old boy about a cat and a mouse. This dance is most suitable for kindergarten students because it is a short dance with a lot of repetition.

Suggestions on how to use the dance:

This dance can be used as part of a integrated unit about animals, classical music, art, and language arts Specifically, we imagine that this dance will be incorporated into language arts (CVC words), art, music (listening map of song), and science. This dance can be adapted to suit the needs of a variety of grades and ability levels.

Before this dance:

· Students will have had diverse experiences with dance and movement

· May have a limited amount of spatial awareness

· May not be able to move in time according to musical cues

After this dance, the students will be able to:

· Move safely in both general and personal space

· Move in time according to musical cues

· Demonstrate an ability to balance in locomotor and non-locomotor movements

· Move in a variety of levels and pathways

· Create movements that represent characters

To download the music for this dance click here --> MUSIC FILE

To view the Physical Education IRP for more prescribed learning outcomes click here.

Connections to BC IRP for PE (K - 7)

Cat and Mouse Story:

http://www.goodnightstories.com/read/story112.htm

By Ibrahim Age: 8

One day a mouse saw some cheese on the table but there was a cat in the house. So the mouse needed a plan to get the cat away from the table. His first idea was to make the cat chase him and then hide but then he thought of a safer idea, to go to the cat's toy basket and wind the cat's toy mouse up and make a squeak and let the toy mouse go.

So while the cat was chasing the toy mouse the real mouse climbed on the table. When he was about to climb back down the cat came back to the kitchen to drink. So he needed another plan to get rid of the cat. His plan was to knock a cup of water over on the cat.

Just then he saw the cat go to sleep. So he went back to the cat's toy basket and got some yarn and went back to the table and tied it to the cheese and lowered the cheese to the ground. Then he started pulling, but it was too hard to pull. So he got 112 mice to help him pull it to their hole in the wall. When they got there they had a nice meal together.