On Tuesday we had Nicole in who has a dance business called 'Fancy Feet Social dance Studio'. She took a music session with the children, who all really enjoyed it, including the teachers. We did foot exercises flexing our feet up and down forward and back. We moved around the room stretching our bodies up high, turning our bodies around in a twirl. Nicole provided the children with a variety of action songs making bubbles with our bodies, we did the actions to twinkle twinkle little star, being little fairies, then being BIG GIANTS, all supported with great music in the back ground.
What a fantastic music session that was had, it held the children's attention and they all participated including most of the under two's joining in with actions and bobbing their knees. Great to see the children keeping physically fit. This experience provided opportunities for children to learn about spatial awareness, gross motor skills (big muscles), fine motor skills (small muscles) we did this by doing finger action songs. The children also gain "confidence with moving in space, moving to rhythm, and playing near and with others" (Te Whaariki).
Hopefully we can organise to have Nicole back to KIDSPACE to take another session.
Tamara
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ruby and caelyn put on a show for me to show what they had learned at their dancing lesson. Its neat to see them actively telling you about their day instead of the normal answer to "what did you do today?"..."i dunno"
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