Get your partners and let’s go DANCING! For the past few weeks we have been practicing some Square Dance steps. (It was a little hard for us, because we were practicing our movements for the Dragon & Lion parade too!) However, we were pretty good at the first few dances, and we were FANTASTIC at the Virginia Reel! Lots of people got in the spirit by wearing some cowboy hats and cowgirl outfits. (Mrs. B. too!) We learned SO many steps… swing your partner, alemande your corner, do-si-do, into the middle and come on back, circle left, promenade, sashay down, ladies go gee and gents go ha… and that isn’t even all of them! We couldn’t do all the dances, but we watched our Grade 5 Buddy Class and they were GREAT at EVERY dance! After the Square Dancing we all did the CHICKEN DANCE… it is very silly and very FUN! We finish off with the Macarena. Everyone loves that one too! You could also say that we practiced our MATH at the same time, because the dances are all PATTERNS!
You can get a little flavour of the dancing by watching our short video!
You can also READ ABOUT IT on our February Student Blogs!