BUNDLE!! Includes all of the resources you need to teach an elementary dance unit! Great for new teachers or veteran teachers who have difficulty with teaching a dance unit!

Have you thought about teaching ballet to elementary students? Even if you're not a dancer, teaching ballet can be a fun and meaningful addition to your classroom dance curriculum.

It happens at every level, at every school I’ve ever taught in. A student asks, “can we play freeze dance today?” I’m always torn. I want my students to have fun and …

Use these adorable visual schedule cards to keep your students up to date on what’s going to happen next. Every schedule card comes with clipart to help younger kids visualize what's next. Every card is text editable with three different options to show the time for each event.

The truth is that most educators who are trained in dance end up teaching dance in private studios and not in classrooms. You can teach dance effectively, even without training - you just need the right resources.

Movement lessons your fourth and fifth grade music students will want to do. These are simple & easy lessons for elementary music class.

Are you looking at getting into folk dancing but you’re overwhelmed with where to start with your students? We’ve all been there, but you don’t…

drama activities and games for elementary students

A great directed line instruction drawing of the classic children's book, Giraffes Can't Dance. Children learn to create funny, personalized cut-out giraffe

drama activities and games for elementary students

Using elastic or stretchy strips of fabric, students will identify, move and create a dance of types of angles, midpoint, line segments, rays and types of lines.

A helpful resource giving examples on lots of ways to teach dance to kids in Elementary School

Songs, Dances, Chants, and Orff Instrumental Accompaniments for Elementary and Middle School Students. By Konnie Saliba. Book. You won't want to miss this delightful new song collection by celebrated Alfred Music author Konnie Saliba! Throughout the reproducible book, students are given opportunities to explore their creativity with rhythmic and

Dance can be a fun way to get your kids moving. So, we've compiled a list of dance activities for kids where they can have fun with both family and friends.

Help your child learn to dance to his own beat with this loveable children's story and fun print pack that makes the perfect companion.

There are many great Montessori posts on the solar system. This post may not add anything new to the blogosphere, but I feel it is necess...

Ayiah Soufi was born on February 6, 2008, in Yorba Linda, California, USA, into an affluent family. She grew up alongside her siblings in a nurturing environment. From a young age, Ayiah displayed a keen interest in the arts, particularly in dance. This passion was further nurtured during her time in elementary school, where she

When I saw we were going to be studying Russia for history, I wanted to do the Five in a Row book, Another Celebrated Dancing Bear. I was disappointed to find that our library system doesn't have it. I was able to find a lot of other good books for our unit study though. The ones the kids enjoyed most were The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, The Littlest Matryoshka, The Magic Nesting Doll, A Perfect Pork Stew, Babuska Baba Yaga, and Babuska's Doll. We read a few non-fiction books to learn more about life in Russia and the history. We read Peter and the Wolf, listened to some of it, and watched this cartoon. We also read about Tchaikovsky's life and discussed the ballets he composed. We attempted to make blini, but it didn't turn out very well. I first tried to use my griddle, but the batter was so thin that it just spread too much. When I tried a pan, they burned or fell apart when I tried to flip them. We ended up getting enough for a taste test. Colin first said they weren't good, but then he continued eating and decided it was okay. Caleigh only touched it to her tongue, but she decided they bad. My husband went to a Russian market for me to look for plain nesting dolls that I found online after it was too late to order for this week. They said they only have them around Christmas so we didn't get any, but he did bring back this box of candy he found there. So far they've only tried this one piece that looks like a little cone, but they all liked it and are looking forward to trying the rest. Since we weren't able to get the other nesting dolls, we made these from cardstock. The templates came from here. Colin's nesting dolls Caleigh's nesting dolls This is Molly's. She was feeling a little lazy that day so she only wanted to color the biggest doll. This is what they look like when they're all nested inside the largest one. Here are their notebook pages. They did books for a map to locate Russia, the flag, landmarks, Matryoshka dolls, a wheel to show things Russia is known for, the religion, and onion shaped domes. For our books and other ideas, I used the following: Russia Lapbook The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Unit Study Another Celebrated Dancing Bear lapbook pieces

Turtle tag is a fun cooperative elementary PE warm up game. Players work together to avoid the taggers and rescue other players in the game!

This post may contain affiliate links. You pay the same and I get a small commission. Yay! (Please see my/our full disclosure for further information.) Looking for simple and fun music lessons? These movement activities for 2-3 grade elementary music class are just the ticket! These lessons are for second and third grade. They will… Continue reading The Best Movement Activities for 2-3 Grade Elementary Music Class

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My kindergarten through 2nd graders looked at the illustrations by Guy Parker-Rees in the book Giraffes Can't Dance. They created their up-close giraffes using the wet on wet technique with liquid watercolors. Using all sides of their paper, they were encouraged to create a detailed jungle background of leaves, vines, flowers and a full moon in oil pastels. They could see how it resisted the blue watercolor that was then painted for the night sky. Last, they added stars with acrylic using the backs of their paint brushes. 1st grade Kinder 1st grade Kinder

Teachers friends, As you know, the end of the year is slowly but surely approaching. You and your students couldn’t be MORE READY! Real learning has pretty much gone out the window, but what is a classroom to do in the meantime? Learning doesn’t have to be completely over, you just have

Kindergartners have been learning about different ways to move to music. We've used many different props such as scarves, streamers, and beanbags to experiment with locomotor and non-locomotor movement. In order to practice expressive movement, I used this activity from True Aim: The Blue Manor Blog called "The Tissue Dance." According to their blog post, the original idea came from the book called, Circle Time Activities by Nancy Alexander. Since we had been singing songs about winter and snow, we talked about what snowflakes look like when they move (slowly, delicately, floating, etc.) and used it for inspiration for our version of the game. The students each received a tissue and had to try to keep the tissue on their head while they moved around the room to the wintery music. First, we just practiced moving and then we turned it into an elimination game - if their tissue fell off their head they were out of the game. After we finished the game, we balled up out tissues and threw them like snowballs. They really enjoyed it and I wish I had gotten a picture of that! :)

Sun prints are so easy, fun, and exciting to make with kids. They are also called cyanotypes and can be made on fabric as well as paper.

Just woke up from a long nap after teaching T.A.G. classes at OKTC! T.A.G. stands for “The Actor Grows” and is a program we have here for all the new kids to the company who are in gra…

Music is magical. The right music can transform a mood and boost happiness. But in families, it can be hard to agree on the same (appropriate) music, especially when there is a wide range of ages for the kids. Here's a Kid-Friendly Dance Music Playlist, selected by kids ages 3-15, to have a little more fun as a family.