NextGen Digital Dance Classroom

It is show week and we all know that life in the performing arts world just gets crazier the closer you get to a show. It is times like these that I so very much appreciate the ease that Google Classroom provides for our daily journaling, video sharing, and communication. Instead of looking dauntingly at a pile of spiral notebooks, I have all of my journals complete and graded and ready for after show critiques and the start of the upcoming new unit. In my last post I referenced a lesson I did with Jazz 4 and involving both easy technology integration but also cross-curricular explorations in math. My Dance Educators class used the Hungry Hippo warm up from this lesson when teaching at Joe Lee Johnson this past week. Enjoy!! AND...come and see us dance on Saturday!! Free shows at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm, and the Round Rock ISD PAC. All Dance 1-4, Ballet, Jazz, Ballet Folklorico, and Dance & Media classes perform with classes with other schools from the district...INTERSECTION!!

I have been given the phenomenal opportunity to teach a class that focuses on developing and teaching STEAM infused dance classes to elementary students. For the 1st 6 weeks we have been creating classroom posters, going on music scavenger hunts, watching STEAM-dance videos, and practicing creating and teaching lessons. Then finally it happen, the week they have been waiting for....Week #1!! On Wednesday, we traveled to the school to practice all protocols and get a tour of the school. They prepared the room and put up their posters, getting so very excited for our 1st day. Our 1st lesson was designed to reinforce mathematics through dance in a variety of fun movement based activities. We return next week to review and create a math based dance. Snap shot of today's activities: 1. Name Game: creating movements to represent ourselves as we say names, everyone repeats 2. Hungry Hippos warm-up: card deck on iPad and a list of movement choices displayed on screen: draw 2 car