29 Oct
2017
29 Oct
'17
4:53 a.m.
Hi Folks,
I've got my collection of family dances that I use with mixed age groups.
But I wonder if anyone has recommendations for family dance stuff when you
don't have the full family?
What's good for ~12 pre-schoolers (age 3 to 5) when they aren't dancing
with their parents; and you have maybe 2 other adults total. It seems
dubious they'd get through even two dances, so give me your favorite if you
have one.
Thanks!
--
Luke Donforth
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29 Oct
29 Oct
1:02 p.m.
Here's one. They have to know the colors of the clothes they are wearing. It's a
circle.
Circle left, right
Forward and back .....
Those wearing red, for instance, skip in the inside. Then skip the other way back to
place.
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On Oct 29, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Luke Donforth via
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Hi Folks,
I've got my collection of family dances that I use with mixed age groups. But I
wonder if anyone has recommendations for family dance stuff when you don't have the
full family?
What's good for ~12 pre-schoolers (age 3 to 5) when they aren't dancing with
their parents; and you have maybe 2 other adults total. It seems dubious they'd get
through even two dances, so give me your favorite if you have one.
Thanks!
--
Luke Donforth
Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com
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4:47 p.m.
Tom’s dance is the perfect type dance to segue into the “spiral” dance! No partner needed,
and after doing the spiral in and out (led by you), you can march them all over your room,
or even into other available spaces.
My other go to dance is Galopede. The A1 can be a simple forward and back twice. Doing a
longways assumes the kids will partner up.
Let us know how you do!
Linda
On Oct 29, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Tom Hinds via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
wrote:
Here's one. They have to know the colors of the
clothes they are wearing. It's a circle.
Circle left, right
Forward and back .....
Those wearing red, for instance, skip in the inside. Then skip the other way back to
place.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 29, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers
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Hi Folks,
I've got my collection of family dances that I use with mixed age groups. But I
wonder if anyone has recommendations for family dance stuff when you don't have the
full family?
What's good for ~12 pre-schoolers (age 3 to 5) when they aren't dancing with
their parents; and you have maybe 2 other adults total. It seems dubious they'd get
through even two dances, so give me your favorite if you have one.
Thanks!
--
Luke Donforth
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9:39 p.m.
Hi Luke,
I would come with a program that doesn't require kids to have a solid grasp
of left or right, or to participate fully in a setting where you're telling
them what to do and they do it, to music.
Maybe plan on a lot of singing games, and a lot of you being out there
doing it with them - the old classics are great. Warm up with a little Ring
Around the Rosie (including the part about the cows in the meadow lying
down and sleeping), maybe a little London Bridge in a circle? I get a lot
of mileage from the Sleeping Bear song and game, and the one about the
small frogs dancing in a ring.
Freeze Dance is great, and the ball of yarn thing is great. How about Can't
Jump Josie or Sally Go Round the Sun?
Maybe check out the New England Dancing Masters books for ideas?
You can also make stuff up - Long lines forward and back twice, everyone
make a tunnel with their hands and top couple dive under - that sort of
thing.
If you need more ideas, let me know - I teach parent-child music classes
and we do a lot of playparty stuff, so I have a lot of this stuff at the
top of my brain.
Good luck!
Meg
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:48 AM Linda Leslie via Callers <
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Tom’s dance is the perfect type dance to segue into
the “spiral” dance! No
partner needed, and after doing the spiral in and out (led by you), you can
march them all over your room, or even into other available spaces.
My other go to dance is Galopede. The A1 can be a simple forward and back
twice. Doing a longways assumes the kids will partner up.
Let us know how you do!
Linda
On Oct 29, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Tom Hinds via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Here's one. They have to know the colors of the clothes they are
wearing. It's a circle.
Circle left, right
Forward and back .....
Those wearing red, for instance, skip in the inside. Then skip the other
way back to place.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 29, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've got my collection of family dances that I use with mixed age groups.
But I wonder if anyone has recommendations for family dance stuff when you
don't have the full family?
What's good for ~12 pre-schoolers (age 3 to 5) when they aren't dancing
with their parents; and you have maybe 2 other adults total. It seems
dubious they'd get through even two dances, so give me your favorite if you
have one.
Thanks!
--
Luke Donforth
Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com>
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30 Oct
30 Oct
3:23 p.m.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've gotten lots of fun ideas on and off list;
and resources I should go and check out. (I'll admit, I've picked up some
of the CDSS pamphlet/books in the past, and been underwhelmed by their
utility; but it sounds like there are some other ones to pick up).
Part of my motivation for this is trying to go into my child's pre-school
for a dance program. My daughter knows enough about contra that she wants
to dance (she's now started writing dances, which I guess shows me what
I've been modelling...) but my calling gigs are too usually past her
bedtime. So I'm trying to find things that make it feel like a dance for
her.
I'm sure I'll end up using this material in other situations (recently got
a call from a family center about a dance, etc).
Thanks again.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Luke Donforth <luke.donev(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've got my collection of family dances that I use with mixed age groups.
But I wonder if anyone has recommendations for family dance stuff when you
don't have the full family?
What's good for ~12 pre-schoolers (age 3 to 5) when they aren't dancing
with their parents; and you have maybe 2 other adults total. It seems
dubious they'd get through even two dances, so give me your favorite if you
have one.
Thanks!
--
Luke Donforth
Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com>
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