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Introduction to Dance
Age appropriate and why: This dance is age appropriate because it is developed in order to help grade one students work on basic movement concepts. There are very few different movements incorporated into this dance (skip, freeze, jump, run, collapse) and the movements that are included are relatively simple. Skipping is emphasized in all lessons because many grade one students are still developing the ability to skip, and if they can skip forwards well, most cannot skip backwards, sideways or turning. The imagery of hide and seek that this dance uses is appropriate because it is a subject matter that all grade ones are familiar with and understand. When asking these students what they would look like, and feel like if they were hiding every student was able to visualize this and explain what it looked, like, sounded like and felt like when they were playing hide and seek. The movements and imagery of this dance are age appropriate because it implements skills and ideas that grade one students can be successful at.
Connections to BC IRP for PE (K - 7): Students will be able to: - move safely through space - demonstrate body awareness when performing dance activities - demonstrate basic dance steps alone and with others - use movement to respond to stimuli
This dance meets these learning outcomes for K-1 because it takes a stimuli - (the game of hide and seek) and asks students to demonstrate how this would look but through the constraints of a dance. It uses simple dance steps (skipping, running, jumping, starting/ending poses) and uses these steps individually and in partner relationships (AB form). Throughout all the activities students are expected to find, use and dance in their own space away from objects and others.
Connections to BC IRP for Fine Arts (dance) (K-7): Students will be able to: - move safely in both personal and general space - move in a variety of levels, pathways, and directions - use a variety of body shapes - move in time to a steady beat - create movements that represent aspect of their world - demonstrate an awareness of audience etiquette.
This dance meets the learning outcomes for K-1 because it continually reinforces the idea of taking the basic movements in the dance and representing the imagery of hide and seek through body shapes, and various pathways, directions and levels. It is also crucial in this dance that students recognize, count and move to the beat because the beat is at a relatively fast tempo. We also encouraged numerous times the importance of being a good audience when you or your group were not dancing.
The use of this dance as a culminating assessment tool meets many of the learning outcomes for both the PE and Fine Arts IRP's. A unit on dance could easily be assessed by using the performance of this dance as the 'test' or final activity in a unit.
Suggestions on how to use the dance: This dance can be taught as part of a creative dance unit. It is a rather simple introduction to creative dance and imagery for the students and after they have been successful with this movement sequence, they would be ready for some more complex movements and imagery ideas. The music is typically associated with Christmas and the dance could be used as part of a Christmas Concert or Winter Celebration. The dance can also be used to link to language arts in the classroom and have children describe what they liked and didn't like about the experiences as well as illustrate and communicate their ideas with one another. |
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