Grade 1 Dance, Lesson 9

Choreography: Creating Story Dances

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9A. Warm Up Routine:

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Warm Up Routine

9B. Warm Up Review All Elements of Dance: The lesson includes a comprehensive review of terms.

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Warm Up Review All Elements of Dance

9C. Modeling Creating Story Dances:
The teacher reads the sample story from the lesson plan about a seed, helps students pick out key movement words, and demonstrates the possible representations of the movements.

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Modeling Creating Story Dances

9D. Guided Practice Students Perform the Story of the Little Seed:
Students (as a group of boys and a group of girls) perform the story to music while the teacher reads the story, following the sequence of the story.

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Guided Practice Students Perform the Story of the Little Seed

 9E. Modeling and Guided Practice Creating Story Dances:
Students review the process of ladybug’s development (egg/larvae/pupa/adult) with the teacher to develop a story and practice depicting the movements to represent the development as a story.

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Modeling and Guided Practice Creating Story Dances

9F. Guided Practice Freeze Dance and Cool Down:

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Guided Practice Freeze Dance and Cool Down

9G. Students Singing a Song to Viviana:

Grade 1 Dance Lesson #9: Students Singing a Song to Viviana

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