Time to Sing and Dance

How:

Get up and get moving. Tap into your creative side and dance and sing like no one is watching!

Latest Crazy Dances - here are some of the latest dances in pop culture. Teach them to your kids…or your kids can teach you!

KIDZ BOP - dance along video

(K – gr 3) Did you know your body is also an instrument? Body Percussion is a song you can learn. At Visual Musical Minds you can see lots of videos for making music and moving.

Grade 4+) Anna Merideth composed a song using only the body and voice as the instruments.

Here is the dance students performed with her composition “Connect It”

• Dance and music tutorial for “Connect It”. Follow along and learn how to do the song and dance too.

Did you know the Jingle Dance is done as a prayer for healing?

Videos of girls doing the Jingle dance are being posted online and everyone is joining to spread joy, love and healing for all people sick with the virus and for those who are anxious about what is happening.

Skye, from the Navaho Nation

Randy Candline talks about her dress and the dance.

What other dances are for healing? Can you find examples?

Here are some ideas for kid-friendly hip hop music! (See Heather Smile blog)

• Give Me Your Love by Sigala

• Stupid Love by Lady Gaga

• Sunflower by Post Malone and Swae Lee

• No Excuses by Meghan Trainor

• Now and Later by Sage the Gemini

• Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) by Shakira

• Heartbeat by Mat Kearney

• One Kiss by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa

• Attention (Oliver Heldens Remix) by Charlie Puth

And a couple throwbacks:

• One More Time by Daft Punk

• One Tribe by Black Eyed Peas

• Pon de Replay by Rihanna

• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air by Will Smith