Examples Of Observation Paper: 5th Grade Dance

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On Tuesday, December 5th I observed Ashley LeSage 5th grade class at Thornwell Elementary. This was my first time watching 5th grade dance class in a public school. I immediately noticed that the students were very talkative walking into the classroom. Ashley handled it situation very quick. They came in and took their shoes off and sat on their assigned spot. Sitting on the spots, they were very interested in what the scarves were for and why they were there on the table. She introduced to them that they were for, but they could only use them if they were quite throughout the class and behave. Her warm-up was an upbeat choreographed dance to two songs. Reminded of a Zumba dance. I thought that it was interesting how she went straight into upbeat movement …show more content…

In addition, during the warm-up, there were two “guest” sitting at the front of the room that I think were disruptive and talking to the students out loud. I’m not sure who they were, but I felt that if they were going to talk to the kids they could have waited or walked up to them and talked quietly. Following her warm-up, she passed out different color scarves but made the statement to them that they didn’t need to worry about what color they were getting. It was just to dance with. After handing out the scarves, as a group they reviewed basic geometric shapes with the scarves by moving them. Ashley moved into teaching them the phrase that all the elementary students were doing, therefore, it was simple. For this, she is taking clips of different classes and combining them into one video so that it showcases their improvement and what they have learned. This choreographed dance was for the teachers as a quick off for Christmas break. Getting through the dance, Ashley added music to the phrase after teaching them 3 eight counts. The song that they were dancing to is Let It Snow. The movement is simple, but also cute for young

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