You can start the video at any time and let it run for the length of time you want the kids to have a brain break. Students need brain breaks especially if they’ve been sitting for a while or testing. Have students been sitting and need a brain break? You can use this freeze dance activity to help students stay focused. Have them stand up 2 minutes early and play freeze dance- then line up to go to lunch or other activities. Or, use the activity to help students move from desks to going to the library.
Have students finished their work? Use 1 minute of the video as a transition activity.
FREEZE DANCE FULL
Use the video for a minute of for the full length. You may want to demonstrate how you want students to move and help them define their personal space. That way you can use the video to teach the actions. When I scroll I mute the music so that it doesn’t bother students ears or make them giggle. Scroll through the video and teach the actions. Use this activity as part of your class meetings and then talk about how everyone moves differently, but we’re all having fun and doing it together. You can play copy cat or have some students showcase their groovy moves. You can compliment and point out how each student is doing the actions. This kind of activity creates a fair playing ground for everyone. Freeze dance is an “individual” activity where everyone can do their own interpretation of the movements and there’s no right or wrong way to do them. Here are the freeze dance actions that you’ll find in this video.īUILD CLASSROOM COMMUNITY- As students play together, they will develop relationships.
FREEZE DANCE HOW TO
Today I’m sharing some ways you can use Freeze Dance activities in your classroom to build community, as a brain break, movement activity and ideas on how to use the video resource.
You can make music in a couple of different ways. The music makers will take turns playing the music for freeze dance and deciding when to start and stop. If any part of your body moves after the music stops, you become a music maker. The music may end when you are in an awkward position. Once all children have found a spot to stand, tell them that when the music plays, they should dance. Everyone find a space on the floor to stand where you have enough room to dance without bumping into other children. Here is a game called Freeze Dance where we can dance together. Then stop moving briefly before calling out another animal. If dancing together occurs in your congregation, give specific examples. Then dance with your little one, hopping about like a rabbit. Dancing is another activity that sometimes we do alone, but sometimes people like to do it together: at celebrations, like weddings or in staged performances.Īsk children for examples of when they have danced in a group with other people. The guests at Hare's party not only got to make music, they also danced.
Can they use the CD player? How many children do you want to play their drums at one time? How will you decide whose turn it is?Ī group game helps children build community. Decide in advance how you will allow children to be the music makers.Make sure you have enough room for children to spread out and "freeze dance" safely.
Drums the children made in Activity 4: Making a Log Drum, or music to play and pause on a CD or tape player.Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity
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