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I teach a creative movement class to 5-9 year olds. Currently I have six in the class and all of them are the most chatty kids! Their stories care great, but elaborate and I swear they'd be happy enough just talking to me all hour but it's very hard to get things accomplished. Now, this may not seem like too difficult issue in a normal class, but this is a class based in imagination and self-expression so the work ignites this trait further, and in fact asks for it. The only things i can think of so far: - work to show them directly how our bodies can tell stories, and that I can hear them all better with my eyes. - use their storytelling and guessing games in the activities we do, keeping their brains creatively occupied. They are just so creayively quick, geniuses - that at 6 or 7 years old I can give them an abstract concept and it makes such sense to them that they embody it and boom a new image or old memory pops up. I've also used drawing at the end, and may add it in class somew...See More


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