When in Doubt, Sing and Dance

Tomorrow is the last day of Spring Term and reflecting on the past three months, I realize that I did a lot of singing and dancing to entertain my classes. Here's a list of my favorite performances:

1.) The Chicken Dance- One of my Seed 2 classes (pretty young) got a kick out of the chicken dance. Every class, I would hear, "Teacher, chicken dance!" so I would bust out humming the chicken dance tune and doing the motions. They would stand up with me and dance. I would even switch it up and say "Ok, fast!" or "Ok, sloooowwww" and they loved it. This week I even showed them a clip of the infamous chicken dance on YouTube.

2.) "Switch it, Change it"- At dance camp, we would learn dances in lines. Every few run throughs, the front line would go the back and then the other lines would move up so that everyone got a chance to be in the front. During this transition we would shout, "switch it, change it, rearrange it" and clap in sync with each other. So, during the speaking section of class there's a dialogue section where you have to switch parts. I taught my class this little chant (I hate to say cheer because Maple Motion always made a big deal about the fact that we were NOT cheerleaders ha) and my Sprout 2 class performs it perfectly! They even started saying it when we switch classes. I'm slowing turning them into mini-motioners. Love it.

3.) The Macarena- I'm bringing it back. Watch out.

4.) "Who Let the Dogs Out"- One day while making up their own dialogue during acting, a word was switched it 'dog house' and a student broke out singing, "Who let the dogs out, woof, woof, woof, woof." A definite oldie, but goodie.

Let's be honest, I wish my life was a musical (or Glee).