Months of the Year
We have started our first grade and kindergarten nutrition unit for health, and will continue learning about food groups next week. I thought we should take one class period and learn the Months of the Year dance. This is something we will practice and do throughout the remainder of the school year. Learning something to music and with motions helps us learn it better, faster, and retain it longer.
Students can practice this at home, with or without the actual song we use at school. The motions are just like the Macarena. Here are the directions:
1. January: Put your right arm straight in front with palm down.
2. February: Put your left arm straight in front with palm down.
3. March: Flip your right hand over.
4. April: Flip your left hand over.
5. May: Touch one hand to the opposite shoulder.
6. June: Touch other hand to the opposite shoulder.
7. July: Touch right hand to the right side of your head.
8. August: Touch left hand to left side of your head.
9. September: Put your right hand on your left front hip.
10. October: Put your left hand on your right front hip.
11. November: Right hand on right hip.
12. December: Left hand on left hip.
