Week 5: Reflection

Important Words & Concepts/Defintions:

• Fundamental Movement Skills- 

• Locomotor Skills: Skills that require children to move from one location to another including running, jumping, skipping, etc.

• Non-Locomotor Skills: Skills that require children to stay in one location including stretching, shaking, twisting, etc.

• Object Control: Skills that require children to handle an object using smaller muscles including dribbling, kicking, throwing, etc.

• Perceptual Motor Skills-
• Time
• Direction
• Space

My Dancing Activites:

• This week I participated in many dancing activities including the Cupid Shuffle and Cha-Cha Slide. We also added locomotor skills to the Do-Re-Mi song. We then created a dance movement with a partner for a lyric of  the"My Favorite Things" song. Our line was 'Brown paper packages tied up with strings' we decided to make a box shape movement with our hands and a tying motion for the string with a twirl at the end.

Reflection Questions:

• In what ways did today's activity affect you?

• Completing these dance activities made me rethink dance in the classroom and how it can be incorporated. Before the classes this week I did not really think of dance in the classroom too much, now I see how fun it is for children and easy to add into other lessons or used for brain breaks. I also got to learn the terminology used for movement and the difference between locomotor and non-locomotor skills. Overall, I really enjoyed getting silly and dancing over the week.

• In what ways could today’s activities be incorporated into the curriculum to teach different subjects?

• Todays activites can be incorporated in many areas. You can use the "Floor Is" song as a brain break in-between lessons. You can use stretches to form different letter to practice spelling words. You can use the song we did in class about different animals as a science lesson. You could even do dance in history to teach the students dances from other countries they are learning about in class.