Happy Holidays everyone!
I sit here writing this as our new heating system is being put it. What a way to end 2019 here at Shooting Star! I can’t wait for everyone to be able to enjoy it.
December is a short but action packed month! This month we used our holiday playlist listening to songs from Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. With hot upbeat it is, it’s always a favorite. Two of our favorite action songs are the Christmas freeze dance and the reindeer pokey.
For our small prop we brought out the beanie babies (special shout out to my mom for buying them for me in the 90’s!) We get to rock the babies, feed them, play with them, put them to sleep and much more. This activity provides a moment of calm in what is usually otherwise a crazy season.
For our large props we are using the curved beam and small hoops. Both of these not only challenge balance and patterning skills, but make the little dancers think about exactly where they need to put their feet.
Of course our balloons continue to work on hand eye coordination and many were excited to see the new purple ones. They also provide a nice segue between halves of the class and give the kids a break from concentrating for a few minutes, enabling them more ready to work again after.
And with December came Frog jumps in the acro portion of class where we focused on jumping high not far and touching the ground after each jump.
Our Sparkling Stars 3 and 4 also focused on marching this month. We worked one or two at a time to march both forward and backward, lifting our knees high and pointing our toes.
All our sparkling stars classes have been building their repertoire each month but special shout out to the Sparkling Stars 2’s classes who added shuffles this month – their first 2 sound tap move!
Our shining and dazzling stars had a great month as well. We spent the month focusing on technique and skills we are going to need for recital. When we get back from the holidays recital prep will be in full swing!
Our Shining Stars 1 and 2 have been working very hard on not only mastering steps to the front, but backwards as well!
We hope you had the happiest of holiday seasons and a fabulous new year! Remember we reopen January 5th with drop in and dance and family dance class. See you then!