I am so happy that I was blessed with the opportunity to share
my love for movement and music with the third graders here at Salvador Allende.
We started with a session about Zumba in the classroom. The main purpose was to
prepare the children for the zumba experience and go over the rules.
Rules
1. No Talking
2. No Touching, keep your hands to yourself
3. Everyone must participate. No watching
4. Be respectful
5. Have fun and freestyle
Gracia made hand and body movements to go along with each rule
to make understanding and remembering the rules easier. Next, the children
wrote down the rules and drew pictures next to each representing the meaning
visually. It was a great success!
Alfonso, and Eva were very kind and helped make the class
possible.
The children behaved fabulously! They remembered the rules, and
followed them. It was great to see their smiling faces enjoying moving to the
music and singing the words to the songs that they knew. Everyone involved had
fun. I think they were motivated to use their English a little more too.
Ariana Godman
Good job, Ariana! Now it's time for teachers to have a zumba experience...
ResponderEliminarThis post seems really interesting to me because it is something different. With it, children are learning Zumba and also to respect the rules but the most important thing is that they have fun. I think children learn the rules better through movements, as Gracia did, due to it is a fun way to do it and it is easier to remember for children.
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