{"id":70802,"date":"2020-04-16T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=70802"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:13:56","slug":"dance-it-up-thursday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/healthy-active-living\/healthy-active-living-all-grades\/creative-movement-dance-activities\/dance-it-up-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance it Up Thursday!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Creative Movement & Dance Activities<\/h5>\n

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Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.\u00a0If we pair the music with movement, we have the added benefits of improving balance, coordination and rhythm. So, let\u2019s get moving!<\/p>\n

For young children, you can have some fun with music and movement by doing an action song such as: If You Are Happy and You Know It<\/a> or Do The Hokey Pokey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, for older children, you can choose a popular song from the radio that has a lot of repetition of a particular word, or a phrase like the song Happy by Pharell Williams<\/a>, or Thunder by Imagine Dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n