Our current Phys. Ed. unit is dance. The Alberta curriculum has a component where students need to apply basic skills in dance. These skills include basic dance steps and patterns including creative, folk, line, sequence and novelty. Students need to perform these movements alone and with others. Because there are so many other skills to work through in the curriculum, many teachers do not include a dance unit.
Our class is focusing on line dances and novelty dances to popular music. We have learned three dances so far: the Electric Slide, the Pata Pata and a choreographed dance to the song Roar by Katy Perry. The first two dances had simple, repetitive steps with a turn to every wall. Roar is a much more difficult dance which involves multiple dance steps to a very fast pace.
At first many of the students were reluctant to move their bodies to the beat for a number of reasons. As we got further into the unit, almost everybody has figured out that it doesn't matter if anybody is looking, it's about moving to the beat and having fun. This enthusiasm was especially present during the Roar dance.
What are your thoughts about the dance unit? How useful is knowing how to dance going to be in your future? What other dances would you like to learn?
~The Big Ham
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I think the dance unit is okay. So far my favorite dance was the Roar dance. Over all for me the novelty dances are by far the best.The novelty dances are better because of the excitement that comes out of them. I mean obviously they're popular for a reason.
ReplyDeleteIn the future I don't think dance is going to be useful that much but still it is pretty fun and I am willing to give it a try. If dance does end up becoming useful though, I will thank my teacher for that.
If I got to choose which dances to do next I would like to do more fast paced novelty dances. Also I will vote for a different subject like soccer.
~something3000
I think that our new dance unit is fantastic to many of my classmates. We learned three dances: the Pata Pata, the Electric Slide, and the Roar.
ReplyDeleteI am very good at all three of the dances. Our teacher said that we will learn one more dance some day. But she did not tell us what the name is yet.
If our teacher wanted us to pick a dance I would probably would not chose one. Because four dances is probably enough for me but when I'm in junior high I have to make up a dance.
Maybe one day our teacher will probably let us choose what we will do. I would choose dodge ball because I am excellent at it. If you had a choice to pick what will you pick and why?
-Fortnitedude123
I think this is the stupidest thing I have ever done. Who would honestly do this? It's the worst thing in the world because I can't do it.
ReplyDeleteIf I ever had to do that dance I would never do it, not even in my life if I would.
But I'm having a good life with one of the dances. It's pretty cool. Trust me you will even like it. Search up on YouTube the Roar dance by Katy Perry. I'm not sure who that is but what ever it's still a pretty good dance for you and your friends to try it out for once and for all. If you get them to try it that would be great and they would already be exhausted by the time they're done. If they even try it I would laugh.
~tinyguy321
What I think about this unit is nice because we might use this in
ReplyDeleteour life time. We have learn three dances. One of
them are called Electric Slide and the other one is called
Roar. That one more thing is called Pata Pata. In Phys. Ed I want is soccer.
~shadowleo
I really like dancing, but not in front of lots of people. I really like all of these dances. They're really easy, and I don't sweat. That I'm glad about.
ReplyDeleteI really think it's going to make me better in my future because I'm just getting started and I'll be way better when I'm older.
I would really like to learn the Orange Justice, the L, Living Large, the Default Dance, and Floss. My big brother does it so bad it's not EVEN correct. I want to teach my brothers how to do those dances too, if I learn them.
-disneyfan25
I think that this unit is the best unit we have done this year. I like it because we do it all together and we are all not perfect at it so we all are at the same level. But with the a lot of other units we are all at different levels.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it will help me with in the future?
I really want to learn more hip-hop dances. Even though I am not the best at it I still really like it.
We have learned three dances. My favorite is the Roar dance.
~blueberry
I love to dance! It is so fun to dance. I am very happy that we are doing the dance unit. I am also very happy that the Big Ham is our teacher for the dance unit. I really love to dance and it is the most funny thing to do because some kids in my class makes it funny to watch them do it.
ReplyDeleteI really wish that we can do this for more than one more dance. My class and I learned three dances in three Phys.Ed classes. I would really hope that you learn these dances in class. The first one is the Electric Slide, the second one is the Pata Pata and last but not least the Roar by Katy Perry.
I would do dance until I am a least 25 years old. Dancing in cheer has made me do better for the dances we do. I also love to do so much dances in cheer and also in school too. Dancing has made it way useful in my life and made me do more practices and more stuff to learn too. It is so useful to know how to dance because then I can do lots of dances in school and everywhere else too.
I would really like to learn country dance too. I really want to show my class the dance for the song I really want to do. I was so bad at it at the start now I am really good at it. I would also want to learn how to line dance because I don't know really how to line dance.
~Silly19
I think our dance unit is amazing because I like dancing a lot and back then in the Philippines me and my cousins are dancing every time it's Christmas and New Year. The four of us practice with my best friend. She is the one who teach us the dance and when it's Christmas and New Year we start to dance and show it to the adults that are watching.
ReplyDeleteKnowing how to dance is useful because if you get older your life will be hard. Your body, like your back will hurt if you bend down or your legs will hurt if you try to reach something on the ground and you bent your legs, it'll hurt by the time you start standing up. That's why learning how to dance is useful and helpful to me.
The other dances that I would like to learn is Hip-Hop dance. I like to learn about Hip-Hop because I just like the beat and that's all. Now we already finished three dances, it's Electric Slide,Pata Pata and Roar dance. I really like the last one.
~QuirkySquirrel123
Personally I think our dance unit is awesome because people can really show their emotions through dancing. Like for example, if you're square dancing you might be feeling in a romantic mood. Or maybe if you're listening to angry music like rock you might be tempted to do stuff that my not be good. Also another thing that about dancing is it's good for you because every now and then when you're dancing you will smile and when you smile it makes you think a bit more positive.
ReplyDeleteThese skills would be useful as an adult because if you have kids you will be the person to teach them.
~Masterduelist1~
I think dance is fun. And I don't really dance that much. First when I think dance it will be boring. But it is fun. I wish we would do one of the dance in talent show. My favourite dance is the Roar dance.
ReplyDeleteIt will useful to dance because in the future you won't be sitting around and watching them do dance.
I would like to learn hard dance because show dance is more boring because you don't get tired. But hard dance you can get very tired and fun. But I don't like to dance Fortnite. Some of the kids like it and it is annoying.
~thebook
l love the dancing unit. I want to learn salsa dancing. I think these moves will be useful in the future.
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I love dancing! It is actually my favourite unit so far this year. My favourite dance so far is Roar. It is a choreographed dance though. I show a lot of enthusiasm in that song.
ReplyDeleteHow can dancing help me in the future? In talent shows, in plays,
and in jobs.
Some dances that would also like to learn are Thriller, Shut Up And Dance, Preacher, and I Fought The Law.
I just want to say it one more time. I love dancing.
~thebigbro
I absolutely LOVE this dance unit. We aren't only moving, but we are also having lots and lots of fun! (Well, most of us are.) I am really upset that our dance unit is ending so soon. I am really enjoying it. Before our dance unit ends, even though I'm a bit shy, I would like to have a dance-off. It would be fun and exciting at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how useful this dance unit will be in my future but, I would be happy to continue, because I love it.
~kittykittypineapplehat
I like dancing. But I am bad at dancing but I want to get better. I think when I dance in the future I will be really good because I believe in myself.
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I think the dance unit is fun. I would love to do it the rest of the year but I don't think we can. My favourite dance that we did was the Electric Slide.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that dancing will be that helpful but it might be a little.
I don't know what other dances that I want to do. I think every year all the classes in the world should do the dance unit.
If I am in The Big Ham's class next year I would like to do the dance unit.
~Winona
I love dancing because it is very cool.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what other dances I want to learn.
My favourite dances are the L dance and the Electric Slide.
~starwars
I love the new dance unit because all the songs are awesome and the moves too. In Mexico my mom inscribe me into a dance class and they said that I was the best one in the entire class. My mom also bought me all the songs of Just Dance so I can practice when I get home.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite dance on this unit is the Roar song because the moves are easy and fun. I always sing that song on the radio in my car.
Another song that I liked of this unit was the Electric Slide dance too because the moves are easy and they work with the song.
I wish that the dance unit can take more time because the Big Ham said to us that on Thursday we are going to dance the last song of this unit and I am sad. I wish if we could dance one of the songs of Just Dance because the songs of Just Dance are way more fun than this ones.
~camila2008
I really love the idea of the Big Ham's bucks. I think it is going to be fun to have it. But i think that it is going to waste paper. But I really like it.
ReplyDeleteIn my old school there was no school buses so my mom needed to drive me there. My mom worked there so I was one of the kids that stayed there for awhile. There was a cafeteria so I never had to bring lunch. There were also classes in the afternoon and my mom enrolled me into a class for art and dance.
I really love the idea of the round swings because it will look nice in the new playground. And i really love those equiment because they make me dizzy.
~camila2008