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For the Teacher


-  Demonstrate and show dance movement for every activity

- Keep recorded sound, with beats of different rhythms and simple songs, handy      for every class.

- Initiate discussions and make every activity interactive. This enables the child to   think about every activity independently

-Feel free to build upon the activities given in the textbook based on the children’s response. If they show more interest in a particular activity, it can be repeated with more variations.


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Have you heard the word dance ? We can expand it by-

D — Do A — Actions N — Narrate C — Compose E — Enjoy


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As soon as you hear these words, you may want to dance.

 
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LET US DANCE


ACTIVITY 1

Move Freely 

Move your body and dance to a popular song from your region. Example: dancing freely on a popular children’s song or a folk song  
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Teacher’s Note

 Play a traditional song or children’s rhymes.

ACTIVITY 2

Dance to the Beats
-• Prepare to dance along with a song or a drum beat. Music has many types of rhythmic patterns. Hearing the varied patterns will help you to create your own movement. • Stamp your feet. • Clap to the beats of the song.

Example
• Using toe and flat foot or heel and flat foot  .
• Make a circle.
 • Move while clapping and stamping with the beats
. • Look and follow the picture.
 • Use left foot and right foot. 
• Hands to clap for the, ‘4 beats rhythm or  taala’.

 

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For the Teacher

Teacher’s Note Teacher may coordinate in showing heel, toe and help the students form a group.




Moving together is very important in dancing, when more than two people (in a group) are dancing. Did you enjoy? Share your joy with your friends.


ACTIVITY 3


Guess the Actions  

Can you guess their action? What are they doing? Write .


 
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ACTIVITY 4

Movements in Four Beats  


Try using different combinations of four beats in the group

. • Make a simple pattern of movements
. • Make hand movements (hastas) with your group. And also recite the syllables  Example with beats:
 

na dhin dhin na

Or 

taka dhimi taka jhuNu
Or

taa thai thai tat

and so on.  
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ACTIVITY 5

Movement of Hands or Fingers  


Observe and learn the movements of animals and copy the movements. Below are some hand and finger movements, showing different flowers, birds or animals 

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Practise these hand and finger movements. Also observe other movements of birds, human being, animals, posture of trees, etc., and try to express them with your hands or fingers.


ACTIVITY 6

Matching Steps with Hands  

Dance on a single line of a song or a small story with your friends with the combination of four beat syllables and different hand and finger movements 

 
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Are you able to recognise four or eight beat rhythm? Can you dance along with the beats with a lot of energy? Move your hands to show an action of an animal, bird, flower, nature and so on ... Yes! keep on dancing …



For the Teacher


 Teacher’s Note Suggest simple songs in four beats.