Today was our LecDem Performance as a capstone project for our semester together. Three other second grade classes came in to be our audience. The students were so excited to perform for their peers!
We set it up so that each group would perform their piece, then stay on stage while I sidecoached them through some familiar dance activities and explorations. The 15 minute "show order" looked like this:
We set it up so that each group would perform their piece, then stay on stage while I sidecoached them through some familiar dance activities and explorations. The 15 minute "show order" looked like this:
Welcome: Me
Introduction of Communication dance: Mrs. Findlay
Mad Libs: Me (ask for adverbs and verbs from the audience, students show movement)
Introduction of Diseases dance: Mrs. Findlay
Everyday Objects: Me (ask for everyday things that students abstract into movement)
Introduction of Telling Time dance: Mrs. Findlay
Statue Garden: Me (Dancers partner up, shape each other into frozen shapes)
Finale: Entire class comes up onstage and forms negative and positive space connections
See? Simple enough, but it was fun. Having an audience there watching them really brought out the best in the students. They really stepped it up from our regular during class rehearsals. They fully invested in the interesting aspects we had talked about and I was so proud of them! They really grew a lot this semester and it was very rewarding for me to see it! Head on over to the Pictures/Videos page to see some clips of the performance. :)
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