Series

Move Dance Learn

40 episodes

Move Dance Learn brings the energy of a children's creative-dance studio to the screen, led by dance teacher Samantha Bellerose. Each follow-along class turns a familiar idea into movement: children dance like pond animals, rockets, dinosaurs and Australian wildlife, explore ballet and beginner tap, learn the six dance dynamics, practise locomotor steps, and even move their way through 2D shapes and feelings. Classes run from quick three-minute brain breaks to full fifteen-minute lessons with a warm-up and cool-down. Aimed at pre-K through second grade, it is an easy way to fold real dance skills and joyful movement into any classroom day.

what this series covers

What Move Dance Learn covers

40 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–2nd. Heaviest coverage: Brain Breaks, Dance and Math. Between them they line up with 14 distinct standards across 3 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 30
K: 40
1st: 31
2nd: 9

Episodes per subject

Brain Breaks: 40
Dance: 40
Math: 4
Social-Emotional Learning: 3

Common Core — Math 1

K.G.A.2Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

National Core Arts 12

DA:Cr1.1.KaRespond in movement to a variety of stimuli (for example, music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance).
DA:Cr1.1.1aExplore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (for example, music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and identify the source.
DA:Pr5.1.1aDemonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning, body shapes, and directionality.
DA:Pr5.1.KaDemonstrate same-side and cross-body locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning movements, and body shapes.
DA:Cr1.1.1bExplore a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements by experimenting with and changing the elements of dance.
DA:Pr4.1.1cDemonstrate movement characteristics along with movement vocabulary (for example, use adverbs and adjectives that apply to movement such as a bouncy leap, a floppy fall, a jolly jump, and joyful spin).

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DA:Cr2.1.1bChoose movements that express an idea or emotion, or follow a musical phrase.
DA:Pr4.1.1bRelate quick, moderate and slow movements to duration in time. Recognize steady beat and move to varying tempi of steady beat.
DA:Pr4.1.2cSelect and apply appropriate characteristics to movements (for example, selecting specific adverbs and adjectives and apply them to movements). Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness while dancing the movement characteristics.
DA:Pr4.1.1aDemonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, levels, and facings. Move in straight, curved, and zigzagged pathways. Find and return to place in space. Move with others to form straight lines and circles.
DA:Cr2.1.1aImprovise a series of movements that have a beginning, middle, and end, and describe movement choices.
DA:Cr2.1.KaImprovise dance that has a beginning, middle, and end.