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Unit: Hippo Week 1 - Line Dance (Monday and Thursday)

dance
gross motor skills
follow instructions

Goals

  1. Children repeat dance moves.
  1. watch the video multiple times
  2. practice the steps

    This dance contains of three elements:

    1. moving one leg (in front, to the side, back)
      and then the other leg
    2. moving to the side and clap
    3. playing an instrument (the children can choose which one)
      when the singer is not singing

Prepare these Materials

  1. loudspeaker
  2. phone with wifi
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Line Dance Video

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Musicvideo

Group Making:

  1. Make two groups and let one group work with the Material Kit.
  2. Set the timer to 20 minutes.

Introduction:

  1. ❤️ (say in Swahili) Hippo likes to dance. Do you remember a dance we like?
    Yes, the line dance.
  2. Let children make one or two lines.
  3. You stand in front, back towards the children, that they can copy your steps correctly
  4. 🌐 (say in English) We stand in a line.

Dancing:

  1. Show each part once.
  2. Let children then dance with you.
  3. Combine all the parts until you can dance the whole dance.