This week in Dance/Gymnastics

Week 23:

Dance/Gymnastics

This week is all about rain and getting ready for spring in dance and gymnastics! We are making it rain in the classroom with our "Magic Rain Makers", we are doing a special rain dance, and in the preschool rooms, we are playing a game called "Jump In The Puddles" and the children will dance around hula hoops, which are imaginary puddles, to music and when the music stops, the children will jump in the puddles!

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we are practicing the Cha Cha Slide, going over part 1 of "We're All In This Together", and we are going to learn some of part 2 of "We're All In This Together" for the spring showcase!

Week 22

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in dance and Gymnastics we are walking across the balance beam! We are also playing "Simon Says" and "Freeze Dance" in the preschool rooms!

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we are working on line dances and going over part 1 of "We're All In This Together" for the spring showcase. We are also playing "FREEZE DANCE"!

Week 21

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in dance and gymnastics we are dancing to Kids In Action songs! In the toddler rooms we are dancing to "You Can Do It", and "Bop Until You Drop". In the preschool rooms we are dancing to "Wiggling To The Rhythm", "Conga Line", and "Bop Until You Drop".

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we are working on line dances and learning part 1 of High School Musical's "We're All In This Together" for the spring showcase. We are also playing "FREEZE DANCE"!

Week 20

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in dance and gymnastics we are preparing for the balance beam by doing different things on a piece of tape on the floor. We are practicing walking, running, skipping, galloping, hopping, walking backwards, and crawling like animals on the line. We are also playing "Ice Cube Freeze Dance" in the preschool rooms.

Rock and Rollers

Due to the weather and the absence of children we didn't get to stick to the regular lesson plan for this week. This week we practiced line dances for the Spring showcase and we played "Freeze Dance"!

Week 19

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in dance and gymnastics we hopped on different colored hearts in the toddler rooms. In the preschool rooms we played "Musical Hearts" which is like "Musical Chairs" except with hearts, we played "Hugging Freeze Dance", and we played a game called "Sweetheart Dance"!

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we practiced line dances for the Spring Showcase, we played "Gymnastics Hangman", and we played "Freeze Dance"!

Week 18

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in dance and gymnastics we are practicing our jumps! In the toddler rooms we are reviewing our bunny hops and frog jumps and also practicing our jumping on the mini trampoline. In the preschool rooms we are reviewing tuck, pike, and straddle jumps and we are practicing our jumps on the mini trampoline as well. We also played a game with a dice that has all of the jumps on it. The children would roll the dice and which ever jump it lands on is the jump that they get to do on the trampoline.

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we are improvising the double-mini by using a mat and a mini trampoline. The children are combining tuck, pike, and straddle jumps with forward rolls and log rolls. We also reviewed line dances and played "Freeze Dance"!

Week 17

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in dance and gymnastics we pretended like we were in the circus by imitating circus animals, crawling through hula hoops while acting like tigers, and walking on a piece of string like the tightrope in the toddler rooms. We went ice skating on paper plates and played a different version of "Freeze Dance" with an ice cube in the preschool rooms.

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we improvised the double-mini by using a mat and the mini trampoline. We did tuck, pike, and straddle jumps on and off of the trampoline. We also played the children's favorite game "FREEZE DANCE"!

Week 16

Dance and Gymnastics

This week in dance and gymnastics we went over bunny hops and frog jumps and had some fun jumping on the trampoline in the toddler rooms. In the preschool classes we practiced our tuck jumps, pike jumps, and straddle jumps and then we practiced those jumps on the trampoline. The children absolutely loved the trampoline and they had so much fun with it!

Rock and Rollers

This week in rock and rollers we did some basics on the balance beam such as walking on it, walking backwards, and hopping on one foot. We also played our dice game and we played Freeze Dance as well.

Rock and Rollers at Fairfield stretching out before class starts.

Week 15:

Dance/Gymnastics

This week in Dance/Gymnastics we are warming up to winter by dancing with scarves to "Walking In a Winter Wonderland" and we are also making it snow with handmade snowflakes to "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow". The preschool aged children also played a "Magical Mittens" game with mittens that make you dance when you put them on.

Rock and Rollers

This week in Rock and Rollers we reviewed the "Cha Cha Slide, the "Cupid Shuffle", and the "Electric Slide". We also improvised the balance beam by putting a line of tape on the floor and the children walked, did lunges, did leg lifts, and did cartwheels on the line.