Example Lesson Plan
Little Dippers Dance Program Week 8 & 9
MONTHLY THEME: Giving Thanks
WEEKLY THEME: Rhythms & Partners
WARM UP-
This week we warm up with reminders of what we are thankful for and people we are thankful for. Warming up our minds, hearts and bodies!
DANCE/BALLET FUNDAMENTALS:
Every week we will work on a combination of plie’, releve’, tendu’, passe’, port de bras, and saute’. Now we are varying our timing and rhythms of each exercise…..we started each exercise at 2 counts each movement and now we are varying the rhythm to 2/1 or 1/1 each movement. Teaching the children music theory along with their dance movement.
Penguins & Chipmunks & Ducktails- Learn to dance with a teddy bear friend!
CENTER WORK:
This week we will continue our work on our dances for our Winter performance.
Penguins & Chipmunks- Away in the Manager- Sheep
Aardvarks- Silent Night- Stars
Ducktails- Go Tell It On The Mountain- Shepherds
Kinder-Plus- Hark the Herald Angels Sings- Angels
We are also adding an additional surprise dance for our performance!
ACROSS THE FLOOR:
Our across the floor exercises continue our rhythm study as well as partnering movement.
REVERENCE/CLOSING ACTIVITY-
We finish this weeks class with some fun new free dance music and our end of the class bow/thank you.
Thank you, Brittany Milan
