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January 2013

  • Body Awareness-Locomotor Movement

    We will focus on walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, gallopping, rolling, climbing and sliding.
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    January Dance Unit

  • Body Awareness-Non-Locomotor Movement

    We will focus onbending, stretching, pushing, pulling, twisting, rocking, swinging, melting and shaking.
  • Body Awareness-Shape, Base and Parts

    Body Base-Standing, sitting, kneeling, and lying.
    Body Shape- Stretched, curled, twisted, angular, symetrical and asymmetical.
    Body Parts-Head, shoulders, legs, arms, elbows, fingers, wrists, knees, ankles, and toes.
  • Space

    Level-High, medium, low
    Direction-Left, right, up, down, backward and forward
    Range-Near, far, big, and small
    Pathways-In the air, On the floor, straight, curved, and zigzag
    Place-Personal, general
  • Time-Tempo

    Fast, Slow, Increasing and Decreasing
  • Time-Beat and Rhythm

    Beat-Underlying and Pulse
    Ryhthm-Steady, Pattern, Breath and Irregular
  • Energy- Weight and Flow

    Weight-Firm, Light, Soft, Strong, Weak, Heavy
    Flow-Free and Bound
  • Quality

    Sudden, Sharp, Percussive, Smooth, Delicate, Sustained, Sporatic, Explosive.
  • Relationships

    Individual, pair or group
  • Individual Dance

    Free dance to music. In personal space, form will be based upon the choice of music.
  • Pair Dance

    We will mainly watch videos on the dance today. We will work on pair dances, such as the tango, waltz. Just basic form.
  • Pair Dance

    Pair dance continued. We will practive the things we saw in the video.
  • Group Dance

    We will focus on square dancing. We will work with only a partner today.
  • Group Dance

    We will work as a class on square dancing. We will coordinate all of our partnered work into a class routine.
  • Practice Square Dance

    We will invite the other grade levels to see us do our dance as a class, so we need to practice!
  • Review Locomotor

    We will be having a quiz on Friday to review the things we have learned, so we need to review. We will also practice the dance once today.
  • Practice Square Dance

    We will invite the other grade levels to see us do our dance as a class, so we need to practice!
  • Performance!

    Other classes will come see us perform today!
  • Quiz

    We will have a quiz on locomotor, and non-locomotor. Also a couple of the dances we learned.