A teacher in my building just sent me a youtube video of glow stick dances. I had never seen these till today. All I can say is, awesome!
I'm thinking this would be awesome to do as a staff for one of our motivational assemblies. I'm also thinking my Orff ensemble kids could really get into something like this. My wheels are turning.
Here is a great blog post I found to explain a little bit more about assembling your "glow stick" costume. Check it out!
I was thinking of a movement exploration idea to use with my part time learning support students today and was working on incorporating the movement into a day's lessons centered around snow. After seeing the new Disney movie Frozen recently, and loving the sound track, I thought the activity below would be appropriate. (I will preface the directions by telling you my kids LOVED this, and even a student who is mostly non-verbal began to hum along to the tune from the movie!)
Snowman Building Exploration
*We first talked about the steps to building a snowman (Form a ball and roll it to make the largest ball on the base. Roll a second, but smaller snowball. Roll a final, smallest, snowball. Add coal or buttons for eyes and a mouth, as well as jacket buttons. Put on a hat and scarf. Add a carrot nose. Add twigs for arms).
*I then turned on the song, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" from the Frozen Soundtrack. (I highly recommend the ENTIRE soundtrack!) The students moved around the room rolling and building their snowman.
*Once everyone was finish building, they had to show me they were done by posing in the shape they built their snowman in (i.e. arms stuck out to the side....round belly shape...etc).
The kids really took their time and it was need to see them exploring movement as I watched each student do specific movements in the process. This took only a few moments but allowed students to explore the ways they can move their bodies and express themselves through movement as well.
