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Show Rhythms for Children Dance class slated Physical Education 1K1. Rhythms lor Children, will be taught Sept. 15-1!) in St. George as part of Southern Utah Slate College's Outreach Program in Teacher Education. Nancy Stringham, assistant professor of physical education at Sl'SC, is the course instructor. in-structor. The class is available lor two hours credit and is open to interested parents, as well as to students in the teacher education program. Class will be conducted Irom 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 15-18 15-18 and Irom K a.m. to noon Sept. 2!. Sessions will be in the Dixie College Language Arts Building, room 111. Ttt-' ' r--nrrmn-rTT- rnr nnm n run nm mini mini iiiihm "The course is designed to help teachers and parents use movement as a means of teaching children about their bodies and to help develop their creative thinking processes," Stringham said. "Children aren't aware of their bodies; they don't know how they work," she explained. "They can learn about movement through skipping, jumping jum-ping and other basic motor skills." Among . the areas covered in class will be dance movements, the use of animate and inanimate stimuli to develop creative thinking, linking creative thinking processes with things that can be seen and touched, and the use of movement as tool in teaching other subject areas. "How to get the wiggles out of wiggly children on a rainy day will be another topic for discussion," the instructor in-structor said. The thrust of the course won't be on structured games and activities. "Children can fail at volleyball or baseball, but they can't fail at f creative activities where there is no right or wrong way of doing things," Stringham said. |