Activities (to do in class) & Complementary to the Dance Program

It is our pleasure to offer you activities that you will be able to do in class with your students to support the dance program we are offering at your school. Use them and have fun!

As a reminder…

Any teacher who uses these activities has the right to reproduce these activities for the classes in which he or she teaches.

Under no other circumstances can these activities may be distributed, sold or replicated to any other person, other teachers of the same school or other schools of the School Board for their respective classes. Any violation of these terms and conditions is a violation of the copyright law.

Introduction to Folk Dance: M. Bono at the Heritage Festival

To demonstrate with images what is folk dancing, we suggest the following video. Our Monsieur Bono spent the day at the Heritage Festival in Edmonton. Watch the video with your students to show them folk dances from different countries.

Kindergarten (junior and senior)

• Coloring
• 7 differences

Grades 1 to 3

• With Tradansa… I enjoy…
• Word Search
• Parts of the body
• True or False

Grades 4 to 6

• Que sais-tu bien faire? (in French)
• Acrostic
• My Dance

Evaluation Tools

We are pleased to share with you these evaluation tools which can be of assistance as your evaluate your students.

These tools have been created by teachers working in the respective provinces and they have given us permission to share it with you. Please use and adapt as necessary to suit your specific needs.

• Ontario (Dance) – English
• Ontario (Dance) – French
• Alberta (K-3) – available in French only
• Alberta (4-6) – available in French only

** NOTE: Should you make improvements to these evaluation tools and would like to share them with us, we will be pleased to make it available to your fellow colleagues.