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Expect the Unexpected
School: Lee Academy, Boston, MA
1. Heather?s Story
For my class?s town hall performance, I chose two interactive dances to teach my students: ?The Chicken Dance? and ?The Bunny Hop,? both dances are part of the SPARKS curriculum, a physical education curriculum that our school uses. I scheduled daily practices and incorporated the dances into our morning meetings. The class quickly fell in love with ?The Chicken Dance.? In my class, the children have buddies that they walk with in the halls and often partner up with for different activities. A portion of ?The Chicken Dance? required partners, so I decided the class should dance with their buddy. I reflected that all the pairs were well suited and diverse in gender and age.
During the week of the performance, our class practiced in the auditorium on the stage. Rochelle suggested dressing like chickens and bunnies for the show, so we listed material we could use to transform ourselves into bunnies or chicks. The children decided that one person would be a bunny and the other a chick in the pairs. The children were ready and excited for their Friday debut.
The performance went extremely well. Every child had a family member in the audience and was dressed in their bunny or chick costume.