Head, Body, Legs

When I was looking over my plan for the semester and my dance lessons for these Kindergarteners, I realized I had an extra week - WOOHOO!

Last week I taught a modified version of this lesson for my 5-6th graders at Provo Peaks Elementary, but I felt like overall this book lesson would be a lot of fun and appropriately challenging for my Kindergarteners.




Using the book Head, Body, Legs by Won-Ldy Paye, we learned the story of how a head, arms, body and legs came together to form a human! The kids did great with isolated movement of just head or just legs and then once the whole body was together, we explored the 8 different locomotor movements (walk, run, skip, leap, jump, hop, gallop, slide).

                   

Afterwards, I split the class into 4 small groups and they were able to construct a dance that incorporated locomotor and isolated movement of specific body parts. I had cards on the mirror with different movement or body parts that they
could rearrange to create their dance sequence.

As always - watching them create and perform their dances was the best!!

   

We ended class by reading the book together and moving the corresponding body parts as they came into the story. It was a great lesson and is such a fun book. I used a dance lesson my dance professor created, so be sure to check it out!