In todays dance session we were to come up with a game that children could use as a warm up before dancing, and it had to have a theme. We chose to use cowboys and indians as our theme and created a game of tag as our warm up. The cowboys were the designated ‘Tiggers’ and if they caught you you had to stretch up into the shape of a wigwam. Tig is always a game that children love to play and running around the hall and creating different shapes with their bodies will warm up and stretch most of their muscles. This activity shows us how easy it was to come up with a themed warm up and this could easily be adapted to link to a topic they class are learning about in another curricular area.

Our lecturer then gave us the names of 6 new dance terms that we had never heard of before, and we had to come up with our own interpretation of what we thought they meant. Incorporated these into the routine.

The six terms were:

• JACK HAMMER
• SPONGEBOB
• PRESSURE TURNS
• HORTY GOERGE
• WING
• GRAND JETE

“Creative dance experiences are designed to be guided by the teacher who provides a sequence of exploratory tasks that promote problem solving and creative thinking.” (Cone, 2011)

By not telling us what they were, this task made use our problem solving skills as all we had to work with was our own creativity and the words as a stimulus. We then had to find a way of incorporating the new moves into our routine for the previous week. This was an interesting way of encouraging us to be independent learners and having to think for ourselves. It also meant that each group had very different final outcomes as all of our ideas were unique.