. Rhythmic action plays and dances; a book of original games and dances, arranged progressively, to Mother Goose and other action songs, with a teaching introductory; for the kindergarten, primary schools, playground and gymnasium. •^- i; ^=?^: -» »- The point step is one of tiie simplest in dancing, butalso one which little children perform the most clumsily. Tomake the point a dainty motion rather than a dig into thefloor with the toe, a setting such as the following may be used. First tell the children some fairy story to impress uponthem what delicate, shy and light little creatures the fa
. Rhythmic action plays and dances; a book of original games and dances, arranged progressively, to Mother Goose and other action songs, with a teaching introductory; for the kindergarten, primary schools, playground and gymnasium. •^- i; ^=?^: -» »- The point step is one of tiie simplest in dancing, butalso one which little children perform the most clumsily. Tomake the point a dainty motion rather than a dig into thefloor with the toe, a setting such as the following may be used. First tell the children some fairy story to impress uponthem what delicate, shy and light little creatures the fairies areand how quietly they move. After the story the teacher maysuggest that the childi-en pretend they are fairies and have amoonlight dance. The dance may be supposed to take placeunder a spider web for a tent which is situated in a field, woodor park. The ground may be covered with daisies and it is night the fairies will not want to awaken the flowers,so they will carefully push them aside, with the toe, beforethey step. That is, before each step they may push a floweraside. The teacher may accompany and direct the action by asing song such as push a daisy, step; push a violet. Thevery slowly at music should be played CHAPTER VI The Step Hop.—In teaching steps which require the leg to be raised and swungforward or backward without bending the knee, such as in the Aesthetic SchottischStep, the Step Hop, etc., some difficulty is frequently encountered in getting thechildren to raise the leg as a whole. The natural impulse seems to be, when the leg is raised, to lift the foot perpendicular to the floor by bending the knee, as in the jigs andskips. For this reason jigs and skips should be taught before the step hop. The mechan-ism of this step is to step forward or backward and hop, at the same time raising theleg either forward or backward with the knee stiff. Swinging the leg across forward inthe preceding chapter has directly prepared for the prog
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