Alphabet Dance

This past week was so fun dancing the alphabet with my Kindergarten students! The lesson I taught was inspired from a lesson Jana Shumway does. We first started by dancing to a fun alphabet song and connected with the previous class on shapes. We had to make the shapes of the letters with our bodies, it was challenging and fun! Then we dances Jana's alphabet dance. These are dance movements that start with each letter of the alphabet. It was fun to see the students move in new ways as well as recognize the locomotor steps they had learned in previous lessons. We then ended with making shapes and moving like words that started with different letters. Ex. "aaa... alligator! Can you make the shape of an alligator? Can you creep low like an alligator?" We did this with words I came up with and also with words the students came up with as well. Overall a very successful alphabet dance day!