“Exploring Dance Fridays”

 

Some of you already now that we have been dancing every Thursday at my “Dancing with Denet” class. Now we have moved that class to Fridays as part of our Big Kids’ Club from 1-4 pm and we changed the name to “Exploring Dance”.

I have enjoyed dancing with all kids at Buddings. It’s been such a great and fun experience! I personally enjoy dancing so much and having this opportunity to dance with kids is just awesome! They all get pretty excited when they hear a song they like and they see everyone dancing. It’s so much fun to see their own particular dance moves with their big smiles.

I have decided that our “Exploring Dance” class will not only include dancing but stories, pictures, games and a lot more. Children will be learning about different styles of dances from all over the world and some other aspects related to that such as:

• The way people dress when dancing and why. (This includes masks, face painting, among others).
• Where does this dance style come from?

This will help kids learn about the world around them and build respect for people from different cultures around the world. In one of our last dance classes we traveled all the way to Africa and used drums, special instruments and we even painted our faces the way some African people do! (Well, pretty similar). We did some new dancing moves and kids big and small did so well!

If you have any ideas you would like to share with me don’t hesitate to let me know and we might be talking and dancing the way people do in your country next time!

I will be uploading posts from our Fridays’ classes so everyone can see what we have been doing every week so don’t forget to visit our webpage.

Benefits of Dancing

Dancing has so many short and long term benefits. That’s right! It’s not only fun but it helps improved children’s physical health, it has socialization benefits as well as educational benefits. At this age is so important that children start to build their self-esteem and dancing is a great way for them to feel comfortable and make new friends.

Hope to see you all this next Friday so we can keep exploring dance together!