A lot of people when they think of dance as movement like Jazz, Ballet, Tap etc. But with creative movement/dance the children don't really have to worry about set choreography and just be themselves while representing a movement. It is really fun to watch kids express themselves and how they move and retain the info about what they are learning through movement.
In my childhood I took several years of dance and I loved it, and I always wanted to choreograph my own music, so I would go home and just make up my own dance with different steps each time. So now as I look back at it I would be moving creatively and didn't even realize it. Then in my freshman year at UVU I took a creative movement class from Becky Ellis and loved it. So it is definitely something I want to integrate into my classroom because it is important for kids to be able to move....and the fact that as a teacher, we can turn it into a lesson is even better.
In class it was fun to do the presentation and watch other groups. All the books were so different and unique, and it was really fun (except for the fact that we had to keep getting up and down, up and down so often). I hope to show the importance of movement to my students and get them excited for lessons like that.
I will prepare by looking over lesson plans that have been made for movement and look at books that have potential for movement and make up plans that I can use.
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