Holistic Cirriculum
Unit Plan
Unit Topic: expressing emotion through movement 1. We can have the children make a movement that represents a certain emotion we tell them. 2. Each day of the week can be dedicated to a different emotion: happy, sad, angry, excited, suprised, nervous. 3. The students will have to create a dance in groups that conveys an emotion they choose, and the rest of the class would have to guess what emotion they are trying to portray. The easiest skill would be how to express emotion through facial expressions, and expressing through their body movement would be harder. It also might be easier to convey happiness than suprised for example. We can start with teaching basic emotions and move into more complex emotions. We can incorporate dance by teaching a sad ballet dance or watching a video of an angry hip hop dance. We are teaching young children how to show their emotions in dance. They will learn how to associate their feelings through movement. We w...
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