Bird Dance
First off. I know it's been over a week since my last post ... things have been busy here. Well, not so busy here, but in my life ... but I promise to give the full scoop in about two weeks ... so stay tuned.
Yesterday we had our Health Hearts assembly ... a little late since Valentine's day was two weeks ago, but hey, that's "Indian time".
It was mainly a show case of the elementary students howing how they keep a healthy heart through dance. The kindergarten boys did The Chief's Welcome Dance and the girls did The Ladies Welcome Dance. The grade one class danced to a song to honour a community member who wrote the song. These songs are preformed with drummers and live singers.
One of the grade 2 classes was to do The Bird Dance. I was thinking to myself, "Ok, I've been to quite a few celebrations and I haven't yet seen the bird dance. I'm in for a treat!" I see the teacher cue some music, which was usual because I was expcting drum/singing. The music comes on ... and guess what it was...
The Chicken Dance!
I laughed my ass off. The students around me were wondering why I was laughing so hard. I even tried to bribe some of my studens with 100 tokens to come up with me and join in. I had no takers though
Yesterday we had our Health Hearts assembly ... a little late since Valentine's day was two weeks ago, but hey, that's "Indian time".
It was mainly a show case of the elementary students howing how they keep a healthy heart through dance. The kindergarten boys did The Chief's Welcome Dance and the girls did The Ladies Welcome Dance. The grade one class danced to a song to honour a community member who wrote the song. These songs are preformed with drummers and live singers.
One of the grade 2 classes was to do The Bird Dance. I was thinking to myself, "Ok, I've been to quite a few celebrations and I haven't yet seen the bird dance. I'm in for a treat!" I see the teacher cue some music, which was usual because I was expcting drum/singing. The music comes on ... and guess what it was...
The Chicken Dance!
I laughed my ass off. The students around me were wondering why I was laughing so hard. I even tried to bribe some of my studens with 100 tokens to come up with me and join in. I had no takers though
posted by Small Town Teacher @ 9:52 AM
2 Comments:
At March 05, 2007 1:59 PM,
Toccata said…
The chicken dance always conjures up memories of weddings. How can one not smile thinking of everyone dressed up in their fancy shmancy clothes doing the chicken dance.
At March 05, 2007 6:50 PM,
Small Town Teacher said…
Tocatta, The chicken dance already reminds me of elementary school sock hops too!
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