Kindergarten is F-U-N!
Hello! My name is Amy Call and I am an arts bridge scholar at Vineyard Elementary this semester. I love teaching dance and am excited to be integrating core curriculum with dance to hopefully further these children's learning experience. On September 13, I taught a shapes and levels lesson to the AM Kindergarten of Mrs. Roberts class. They were mostly all excited to be dancing and move around. I did not anticipate that so many children would get hurt right off the bat though. As we moved the desks one boy in particular got his arm smashed in between the desks. Everything turned out okay, but what a rough start to the day! The kids seemed eager to learn and always had something to say, but once the rules and guidelines were set for the class, they did pretty well at dancing with their bodies and not with their mouths. I originally tried tying in dance shapes (curve, twist, bend, & straight) to something they are already familiar with like geometry shapes (circle, trian