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Connect 4- Lucky Shapes

By maria, on March 17th, 2012%

 

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

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Stories For “Dessert”

By maria, on March 5th, 2012%

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”

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Straight and Curvy Shapes

By maria, on September 14th, 2011%

Yesterday I taught my 4-5 year old ballet class straight and curvy shapes! It was awesome. In ballet class, it is most important that they know the difference. After we did the lesson, I was able to use the reference in the rest of the class. It was awesome to see that they understood it. I used the song from Leap n’ Learn. It’s a simple song, but switches between curvy and straight shapes to help us feel the difference.   Continue reading Straight and Curvy Shapes

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Foam Shapes

By maria, on September 2nd, 2010%

Want to know what I have been working on this week? More arts and crafts! At the Dance Teacher Summit I went to a prop seminar from Beverly Spell of Leap N’ Learn. It was such a neat idea that I thought my students would love it. And I thought you would love it too!

Here’s what I did-

I ordered 2 packages of foam sheets from Oriental Trading. 48 sheets in total.

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