Art Form: Dance

Supplies Needed

The Smallest Spot of a Dot book

Index cards or small slips of paper and a pencil

Vocabulary

Movement - How you use your body to do a dance or action

Locomotor - A movement that moves from one place to another (Ex. walk across the room)

Non-locomotor - A movement that stays in one place (Ex. Wave arms while standing in place)

Improvise - To make up dance moves on the spot without planning

Same - Two or more things that are alike

Different - Two or more things that are not alike

Instructions

1. Read the book and discuss the ways we are the same and different.

2. On separate index cards or slips of paper, write three to four ways that the book states we are different. On separate index cards or slips of paper, write three to
four ways that the book states we are the same.

3. Spread the cards or slips of paper out on the floor in an open space with the writing facing down.

4. Choose a card/slip of paper. Start by standing above it. Look at the card and improvise a non-locomotor movement that reflects what is written. For example,
choose a movement that stays in one place that shows “we all need sun to shine from above”.

5. Choose a locomotor movement to travel to the next card.

6. Repeat steps five and six until you have created movements for all the cards.

Extensions

Choose some of your movements and put them in a sequence.

Write your own ideas of how we are the same and different on the cards/slips of paper and include them in the above activity.