This week, the Kinder 2 class started to practice songs and dances for their upcoming School Festival. Today, they were practicing “The Cha-Cha Slide.”

First, we clapped a bit, then started following the instructions of the song. These included turning left and right,

jumping, stomping with either their right or left foot,


then “cha-cha real smooth.”

Once we run through the song, we focused on areas to work on. For today, they were pointing when stomping,

in which the children gave good loud “ha!” when pointing, and staying in line when performing the cha-cha.

This was a little trickier, but the children tried well. With the focused practice finished, we gave the dance one more go.


The children really enjoyed dancing and can listen to the instructions really well. They also have an excellent cha-cha.
After the dancing, it was time to practice some Halloween vocabulary. First, we ran over the cards.


They were great at the sentence “It’s a …,” though needed to be careful words ending in ‘Tt’. They tend to miss the last ‘Tt’ sound. They played a simple touch game where they chose a card and showed it to their team. The team then produced the target sentence.


To add some excitement, if they chose a certain card, a ghost for example, they would get a point. If they chose another certain card, they would be “out” and lose their points. It got a bit dramatic.


To finish off the hour, the children did a little instruction following. It can sometimes take them a while to sit down when asked, so, we went walking, jumping, and cha-cha-ing and when told to sit, they had to sit as fast as they could.


A fun wee activity to end with, and practice listening.
The children did really well today. Their dancing was excellent and they are using fuller sentences more often, and having more fun doing it. Great job, everyone.