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Move. Create. Educate.
This time of year, my students start talking about the circus. This must be the season for the circus? Confession: I have never been to the circus! Have you? Please tell me I am not the only one. Anyway, one day in class since every. single. child. was talking about how fun going to the circus was I thought it might be fun to make a dance. Here is what we did: Continue reading Circus Dance
Today in class we did connect 4 shapes or as one little said “lucky shapes!” It was so fun! Continue reading Connect 4- Lucky Shapes
Look at these beauties straight from Mexico! Yahoo! I am so excited about adding these to my collection. Continue reading Maracas!
Remember the Shape Song Swingalong Book? Well the winner of the giveaway, Liz, wrote me an e-mail today about how she used the book with her littles in class. It’s a great little write-up and I wanted to share it with you! Here is what Liz had to say: Continue reading Stories For “Dessert”
My 5-6 year old creative ballet class has been invited to perform on stage! It’s exciting because many of these students have studied with me for 2 years and I think it’s great that they will get the experience to perform. I am excited to go through the process of creating and choreographing a dance with them. I am even more excited about diving into all of the elements of performing. The first one we are exploring is ‘what is a choreographer?’ Here a few ideas that I incorporated: Continue reading What Is A Choreographer? 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 what I did with the book and how I used it with my students in hopes of giving you some new ideas to use in your classes! Here is the February book. Enjoy!
I love the Hokey Pokey! It’s one of my favorite dances to do with my littles. It seems like all ages love this song and dance and it never gets old. This month Kerry recommended The Croaky Pokey and I was so excited to try it out. I tried this book with my grown-up and me classes which are ages 2-3. They loved it! Here’s what we did! Continue reading The Croaky Pokey + The Hokey Hippo
Exciting news! Continue reading More Tips for Teaching Toddler Dance
Dear readers, my awesome friend Liz mentioned in passing that I should check out The Bossy Frog Band. Uhhh, it’s amazing! You have to check it out. It’s smart, and so ideal for incorporating into creative dance class. My fave is the Nature Freeze Dance. The Nature Freeze Dance gives spaces for freezing (making shapes), free dancing, animals to dance like, slow and fast, and a directive clap hands and stomp feet all in the same song! Can you believe it? Continue reading The Bossy Frog Band
This month’s Dance Advantage Circle Time topic is The (Dance) Things I Love. I have been thinking about what to write in this post all month! I kept asking my husband, I need to think about some dance things that I love. He was like “ummm, dance is your life, you surely can think of something.” |
Maria Hanley is an independent early childhood dance educator in New York City.
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