Primary Dance Week - April 23 - 27, 2007

On Dance Week I learned a lot of cool dance moves like the square and the twist. Our dance instructor's name was Ms Joanne Fetchko. We started Dance Week on April 23. Our dance presentation was on April 27. I hope the intermediates watch us on the Norquay website. I wish we would have danced on a real stage. That would be neat - with a real audience! I felt nervous at first because the audience had parents in it but I was the leader on the last row. It felt just like practice. It was fun. I wish I could do it again!
by Nikita

April 23 to 27 was the Primary Dance Week. Joanne Fetchko was the dance teacher. We did some exercise before practising dance. Kindergarten to Grade 3 were practising dance from April 23 to 27. It was kind of fun. On Friday we did the dance that were were practising. A lot of parents came to watch the dance at 2:00. The dance was in the gym. Our class was paired up with Mrs. Smith's class. When we were practising dance, our class and Mrs. Smith's class were in four groups. The song for our dance was "Ease On Down the Road".
by Mabel

The Primary Dance Week was from April 23 to 27. That week a dance instructor named Joanne Fetchko came to teach the primary students (K-3) dance moves. We had only four days to learn the dance because on Friday it was the dance presentation. The music that our class and Mrs. Smith's class danced to was "Ease On Down the Road". When it was time for the presentation for the paretns to see, I suddenly felt scared because there were hundreds of parents and grandparents watching us! Anyway, it was a fantastic week!
by Judy

  When we got in the big gym, Joanne taught us some stretches. Then she showed us our first step in the dance. We ran around in the circle 24 skips. Then we go in and out four times and clap. Then we put our left foot in shake it, then we take our right foot out and tap it on the floor. Then we move our hips and shake out hand up four times, and down four times. We ran around get in a straight line and go forward, clap!!!...And backward clap!!!...Then we do a square and swing our hand right to left three times. Then we did hands side to side while we were bouncing. Then we bound and skipped to our places.
by Pooja

Our class and Mrs. Smith's class went down to the gym from April 23 to 27 for a dance. First, we did some exercises, then we did the dance. There were a lot of parts we had to work on. The first part was to skip until we were done counting 24, and then we went in circles and counted four, and we went in the circle and counted four, and we clapped on the count of four. Then we kicked a little with our left foot and we kicked a little with our right foot. Our dance teacher is called Joanne Fetchko. The second part was to skip from a circle to a straight line. That was hard because I was the leader!!! Then we went forward and clapped on the count of four. We did that that three times and then we jumped. We did a bouncy part where we had to stretch our arms. Then we did a boxing move. It reminded me of a movie called "Jump In". And then we bow. We skipped off and that was the end of our dance. I saw my grandparents. I felt very comfortable doing this dance. Well, that is all. See you next time.
by Carmen