Kandinsky Circle Dance - Upper Elementary Movement Lesson!
I had an amazing time presenting the the Manitoba Orff Chapter's Children's Day this past May. It is a day of making music with children from all over Manitoba. Students are seperated into groups and rotate through five one-hour sessions throughout the day. These include Basic Orff, Recorder, Choral, Movement, and sometimes Drumming and/or Boomwhacker sessions. The theme this year was music and art and I presented the movement session. It was such a great day working with the children! I would love to share my lesson with y'all! It was a blast. KANDINSKY CIRCLE DANCE Inspired by Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles , c.1913, by Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky spoke of his experience attending Wagner's opera Lohengrin: "I saw all my colours in spirit, before my eyes. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.” Materials • emotion word cards • painted cards symbolizing emotions • posters of movement words (light, fas...