The 80s! What a blast! So what to do?   The logical choice was “Footloose”. The kids loved it!  It didn’t hurt that they just remade the movie so they had heard the music recently.  They think of the music as their own.  You can watch this video for some of the chooses of silly...
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Watch as they “Stroll” to Earth, Wind and Fire on Soul Train. To continue our discovery of dances from the past, our students watched a Soul Train clip to see them do the “Stroll”.  This evolved over the years but my students saw the possibilities when there was a little more movement.  In the...
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  The in 4 Acts!   The cover of our Decades program for our student skits! After researching their decade and putting it all together in a mind map, our clever students choose 3 important events in the categories of: Science and Technology Arts and Entertainment Lifestyle People and Events and then put the...
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This site has lots of pictures of different dances (some look really goofy!!) throughout the decade but I picked the following video because it was easy for my students to follow and they had fun with it. Video for the pony, twist, locomotion… After our students watched the video then it was time to...
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As we explored the decades with our students, we found music that was popular then and one of the dance moves was the hand jive.  Our students picked it up pretty quickly.  It was fun to watch them demonstrate it to others! This video is a nice collection of 30 of the top songs...
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It’s fun having an opportunity to dress up like Halloween!  Venee and I had a blast with our students going back in time and exploring events and music from the recent past.  This was our culmination – and it was a huge hit.  Our students were kind of speechless when they saw how we...
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