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Ideshibhodi ... Hippo wants to dance Hippo Week 1 Freeze Dance (Start Wednesday)

Iyunithi: Hippo Week 1 - Freeze Dance (Start Wednesday)

dance
react
gross motor skills
learn vocabulary

Goals

  1. Children learn new words and react to the music
  1. read the instruction
  2. watch the video

Prepare these Materials

  1. loudspeaker
  2. phone with wifi
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Bukela
Khuphela kwi-App

Ividiyo - umdaniso wokuma

Introduction:

  1. ❤️ (sitsho ngesiXhosa) In our story, the hippo likes to dance.
    Today we learn some new words. Let's practice them before we begin.
  2. ❤️ (isiXhosa) The song is in English.
  3. ❤️ The first word is dance, you know that, right? Say the word in English.
  4. Let children dance.
  5. 🌐 (utsho ngesiNgesi) Stop. Now freeze. 
    ❤️ That means, stop, don't move.
  6. 🌐 (isiNgesi) Let's hop. That means jump up the air.
    Translate it.
  7. 🌐 Stop. Now freeze.
  8. 🌐 Let's skip. That means, jump to the side and back.
    Translate into Swahili.
  9. 🌐 Stop. Now freeze.
  10. 🌐 Let's twirl. That means, turn around.
    Translate it.
  11. 🌐 Stop. Freeze.
  12. 🌐 Let's dance again.
  13. 🌐 Stop. Freeze.

Dancing:

  1. Explain the dancing in your language. 
  2. Play the music from youtube and start the dance.
  3. Play two times.
  4. Repeat every day.
    You can play the freeze game with different Songs you like.