Mrs. Condie's Class Visit 5: November

This dance lesson was all about the month November! For the first half of the lesson the students were paired in partnerships and we explored how we could create each letter using our bodies. The students particularly loved this activity and loved doing it with a partner. While creating each letter I challenged the students to make their letter different than everyone else, I didn't want to see anyone making the letter in the same way. I love giving this challenge because it helps prevent students simply copying each other, they instead have to really think and come up with their own way to do something.

After we were done spelling out November with our bodies we explored different aspects of the month through movement. We did everything ranging from falling leaves and cold frigid air, to blowing wind and crunchy crumbled leaves. After we had explored these as a group we played a quick dancing game. I divided the room into four sections and gave each section a criteria (for example one section would be the falling leaves and the adjacent section would be the blowing wind.) The students could dance from one area to the next, or they could to choose to be in the middle of two sections but they had to figure out how they could do both types of movements at the same time. I turned on some music and let the students have fun dancing from one section to the next.