Medieval History Lesson

I recently got a job teaching children and babies at a daycare how to dance. I want to start incorporating lessons into my classes, as well as change up the exercises each week. What kinds of things should I be trying to teach babies, and what kinds of things should I be trying to teach children from 3-5 years old?

Don’t expect amazing things from 3-5 year olds.

Here’s RADs pre-primary syllabus:
Running in a circle
Running en diagonale
Walking with stretched feet
Walking on demi-pointe
Skips
Demi-plies
Rises
Points
Knee bends
Jumps
Bounces
Claps
Marches
Pony steps
Pony trots
Pony galops

Here’s the primary:
Swaying
Step close step point
Knee lifts
Stork walks
Sautes
Echappes sautes
Spring points
Galops sideways
Jumps with eye focus
Skip change of step

Here’s grade 1:
Battlements tendus
Petit jetes
Bivided battlements tensud
Transfer of weight
Classical walks
Swaying
Spinning
Soubresauts
Galops forward
Step forward (heel toe)
Picked up runs

For babies, focus on rhythm and movement. Clapping in time, counting to 4, bouncing in time, ‘free dance’ to music, happy feet and sad feet (pointed and flexed), pretending to be animals /ghosts /trees /princesses /butterflies, etc.

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1. Artemis Says:
   March 2nd, 2010 at 5:43 am

   Don’t expect amazing things from 3-5 year olds.

   Here’s RADs pre-primary syllabus:
   Running in a circle
   Running en diagonale
   Walking with stretched feet
   Walking on demi-pointe
   Skips
   Demi-plies
   Rises
   Points
   Knee bends
   Jumps
   Bounces
   Claps
   Marches
   Pony steps
   Pony trots
   Pony galops

   Here’s the primary:
   Swaying
   Step close step point
   Knee lifts
   Stork walks
   Sautes
   Echappes sautes
   Spring points
   Galops sideways
   Jumps with eye focus
   Skip change of step

   Here’s grade 1:
   Battlements tendus
   Petit jetes
   Bivided battlements tensud
   Transfer of weight
   Classical walks
   Swaying
   Spinning
   Soubresauts
   Galops forward
   Step forward (heel toe)
   Picked up runs

   For babies, focus on rhythm and movement. Clapping in time, counting to 4, bouncing in time, ‘free dance’ to music, happy feet and sad feet (pointed and flexed), pretending to be animals /ghosts /trees /princesses /butterflies, etc.
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