JumpStart believe that dance classes should feel current and appeal to today’s primary school children. That’s why we created our Dance Class in a Box resources. The sessions are clear and easy to follow and most of all fun!
JumpStart believe that dance classes should feel current and appeal to today’s primary school children. That’s why we created our Dance Class in a Box resources. The sessions are clear and easy to follow and most of all fun!
A dance class aimed at Foundation Stage pupils.
This session focuses on emotions - create a happy, sad and angry dance in response to prompts, ideas and suggested music (easy to find on YouTube)
Movement Objectives:
Dynamics:
Happy - energetic, expressive, big
Angry - Heavy, sudden, loud
Sad - small, slumped, closed
Body parts: facial expression
Action: A range of actions to express inward emotion
Includes
warm up relevant to the topic
main activities - creative tasks, improvisation and basic choreography in response to stimuli (different music)
cool down
Listings of all music that can be downloaded or found online