Pre-School Workshops

Creative Movement and Language Arts 

Lesson 1:

Through creative movement activities, students learn the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time. Students create movements to keywords from the story. 

As the book is read aloud, students use movement to enhance their story retelling, gestures to dramatize repetition, and sounds to amplify key moments.

Lesson 2:

Through Creative movement activities, students explore organizational language by creating an obstacle course they help create by retelling the story of Rosie’s Walk. 

Standards:

Shows an understanding of words and their meanings 

Lesson 1 Benchmark A:

Demonstrates understanding of age-appropriate vocabulary across many topic areas and demonstrates a wide variety of words and their meanings within each area (e.g., world knowledge, names of body parts and feelings).​

Lesson 2 Benchmark B:

Demonstrates understanding of functional and organizational language (e.g., same, and different, in front of and behind, next to, opposite, below) in multiple environments

Creative Movement and Science 

Students will learn about life cycles using movement and their bodies. Options include the life cycle of a bean plant, butterfly, or the water cycle.

Lesson 1:

Through creative movement activities students explore the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time.

Lesson 2:

Using the dance elements shapes and levels, students will create dances to demonstrate their understanding of the science-chosen concept

Standards:

Scientific Inquiry domain - Life Science

Lessons 1 & 2 Benchmark C:

Understands that all living things grow, change, and go through life cycles 

Creative Movement and Math

Lesson 1:

In this workshop, students explore the dance elements shapes, and levels. Then, through engaging and fun creative movement activities students will create 2D shapes using props and their bodies!

*This workshop only requires one lesson