These Wellies Were Made for Dancin’

Dance and movement are all ways to tell a story! Explore these concepts to express emotions with your classroom.

To get started, ask questions like: What are some of the ways you dance with your family? What are dance moves you can teach to the rest of the class? How can we all tell a story we’ve been reading together through dance? Now, it’s time to create some unique dance moves of your own!

Together, choreograph a class dance that you can use in transitions, on your way to lunch, to focus or to start each day off in unison. To begin, play around with rhythm by clapping, stomping or using objects from around the room, remembering to experiment with different levels and tempos. Build on that by playing DJ for a day and adding recorded music, or make music of your own with classroom instruments or found objects. Ask questions like: How does music make you feel? How do different kinds of music make you move?

Finally, put together a sequence of moves that everyone can do and decide what time(s) of day you’ll be using this dance. Now you have a unique dance that only your class knows. Isn’t that wild?!

To support this unit, use the Activity A Case of the Sillies.