Physical Development - Early Childhood

Drum Dancing

In this 2-minute video an educator drums and the children and another educator clap and sing. Children get a chance to stand up and dance to the rhythm. The second educator shows awareness of children's needs when he dances with a child who does not want to dance alone. When another child wants a partner, a peer joins her with the educators' encouragement, demonstrating a caring community in the classroom. The children engage in creative expression and gross motor skills by dancing, jumping and spinning. They demonstrate warm social relationships by helping a peer.

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Ways To Use

Discussion: social relationships, friendships, rhythm and the role of scaffolding of the teacher with the children. Practice observation Class activity or discussion : Use video to connect CA Preschool Foundations domains: Identify domains, strands, and substrands Physical development Language development Visual and Performing Arts Social and Emotional Development As part of class discussion-show video in class to demonstrate the value of diversity in classroom population children and gender, teachers and children

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