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Scattered Square Dance

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Take a good, square look at this introductory square dancing lesson. Each square dance move has what is termed a "call." Teach some beginning calls to your young dancers. They can be scattered around so that their focus is on learning and performing the call. Trying to organize them in squares to perform technical square dance moves might be a bit premature at this age. Just focus on having fun and getting little ones moving. Yee-haw!

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line dancing, dancing

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rhythm, line dance, square dance, Dance, physical education
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Grade
K - 5th
Subjects
Physical Education
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
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Modeling
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Year
2010
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