Creative Movement!

Episcopal’s Creative Movement program led by Sarah Turner encourages our children to develop mind body awareness through dance, music and multi-sensory activities. Students participate in a wide range of large and fine motor skills through which they develop an awareness of their body in space, locomotor skills, hand-eye coordination and balance. These activities also promote fitness and self-confidence. Our program includes many dances and exercises that emphasize feelings and emotions. During a recent class, children discovered that they can use slow, sustained moves to convey feelings of sadness, and sharp, sudden moves to express feelings of joy. By exploring emotions through dance, children become self-aware and attuned to their feelings and comfortable talking about them.

Creative movement provides opportunities for kinesthetic learning. After students see photographs and videos about honeybees, they act-out the pollination process to music, using pom-poms to represent pollen. As children pretend to fly from flower to flower, collect and harvest the pom-pom pollen, they are learning how bees live and how they gather food. Throughout class, you may hear, “I’m doing it!” or “I can try tricky things!” This “can do” attitude is at the heart of all we teach through play at Episcopal.