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jcan · Joined: 08 Oct 2006

I'm doing a summer camp at another elementary school. I just talked to the co-teacher today and she said that it's going to be a song and dance-based camp.

She wants some "traditional" dances from Canada. :S Not entirely sure what it is she's looking for, but does anyone have experience doing these kinds of camps? Any particular songs work well for younger children? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me...

icnelly · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Location: Bucheon

Not sure if these will help, as they're not really thematic, but check out my youtube page for some young learner songs.

You can download them in Karafun format (.kfn) from my Esnip's page too. Check under YL Karaoke. There are other elementary resources as well.

Jane · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

French Canada has a rich music heritage, and I remember doing trad dances in school. You might want to do a search for "Acadiens" dances...

There is a specific list of French Canadian dances here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French-Canadian_music

Vive le Quebec!

But to keep it easy, do the chicken dance...and pass it off as Canadian...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UV3kRV46Zs

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

Song and dance summer camp? You mean, like, literally?

I'd so be out of there.

JBomb · Joined: 16 Oct 2008

nothing beats the cha-cha slide.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

hobakmorinam · Joined: 22 Dec 2008

Surely this is a troll....

Or worst job ever.

Robot_Teacher · Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Location: Robotting Around the World

Not a troll. Music is a powerful teaching tool. It's amazing how you can coerce more English out of them with music and things they enjoy than demanding them to speak when bored. When I was a kid I was afraid of singing and playing music in front of people, but privately sang and played. Now I'm not shy. Many of you might still feel this way about it or have no artistic abilities so you naturally refuse to do music. When they see you do it, they take to it like bees to honey after hearing it the first 2 or 3 times and it's all good. I include a great deal of song and chant in my teaching, but am not as much of a gamer as I imagine many ESL teachers being. ICNELLY is the bomb for kindergarten and elementary which I use in my elementary classes every day. Thanks again for putting those videos up on Youtube. Bingo and Banana Phone are the best ones. And then we do the monkey. Days of the week is good too.

I'd love to find Miss Mary Mack and this other song that goes, "Have you ever seen a monkey, a monkey, a monkey, go this way, and that way," but no one posted those online so it needs to be bought in a Western country.

My Summer camp will include music, art, culture, video to support these activities, and go light on the academics side even though they told me to teach basic ABC English as these are the poorest performing students going to Summer school. I'll pop in some phonics too. It's not only English, but they'll also be schooled in Korean language, Math, and science after 3 hours of English each morning. I guess each school has a different need or want for their students and ideology on education just as each teacher teaches very differently with their own unique style. I believe the OP is being real.

jcan · Joined: 08 Oct 2006

Haha, I'm not a troll.

Thanks for the suggestions - they were helpful. Totally gonna do the chicken dance.

detourne_me · Joined: 26 May 2006

Cha-Cha slide is great!

how about some Sharon, Lois and Braham stuff?
umm, "do the hokey-pokey"?
Square Dancing, or line-dancing? like achey breaky heart hahaha!

pavement burns · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Location: Pocheon, Kyonggido Korea

Definitely chicken dance - you can even turn it into a competition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UV3kRV46Zs

Kikomom · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:05 am Post subject:

Easier than learning your ABC's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU

i · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Location: Seoul

I have to do a dance class too. But it's balancing yourself on bamboo poles while music plays. Don't know if it's Thai or what. Just glanced at the syllabus.

vonnegutjr · Joined: 24 Mar 2009

Why the hell are you doing dance classes? I would not be happy about it, I gues everyone's different. Hope you get payed for it!

i · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Location: Seoul

No, not happy. Just resigned to the fact that its happening. At least I don't have to do a camp.
I also have to do classes where kids make sandwiches, pot bing soo, some kind of blow up doll that's done in the name of Science and more foolishness. Why can't people here just take time off. Guess they'd rather pay for their kids to balance on poles than to take a family trip and let the kids rest up for another year of 18 hour study days.