Dance Lesson Ideas

1-24 – March to the music.

1-8 – “Goodness gracious great balls of fire” Each time the students hear this phrase, they will jump in place 8x.

1-24 – 24 runs to the music around the perimeter of the gym.

1-8 – “Goodness gracious great balls of fire” – students will jump in place 8x.

1-24 – All students should face into the center of the circle and slide R, step L and repeat for 24 counts. There will be 12 slide R/close L movements.

1-24 – Students should reverse direction and slide L, step R for and repeat for 24 counts. This will be 12 slide L/close R movements.

1-24 – Students will place L shoulder into the center of the circle and will skip 12 times. Each skip is a 2 count movement.

1-8 – “Goodness gracious great balls of fire” – students will jump in place 8x.

1-32 – Students will perform the 8 count combination of “run R-run L-leap R-run L-run R-leap L." Each run is one count and the leap is 2 counts. The students will perform “run-run-leap” sequence 8 times.

1-32 – Staying in place, students will hop 4x on the R foot and 4x on the L foot. Repeat for a total of 4x.

1-32 – Gallop with the R foot lead for 8 counts, gallop with the L foot lead for 8 counts. Repeat R and L lead.

1-32 – Students will skip 16x. Each skip is a 2 count movement.

1-8 – 8 runs to the music.

1-8 – “Goodness gracious great balls of fire”- students will jump in place 8x.