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- Hi, I'm Ciara with Moving Minds Dance,

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and I believe that we can
learn all things through dance.

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So today, we are going
to dance about letters.

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When we read, we know that we
have to understand the shapes

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of letters,

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and when we dance, we make
different shapes with our bodies.

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At home, to do this activity with me,

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all you need is your body.

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I will have some pictures of letters

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that we can dance together.

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But if at home, you
have pictures of letters

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in different languages or alphabets,

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I would love for you to use those too.

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All right, let's start
with our dancing shapes.

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There are three ways that we
can make shapes when we dance.

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Straight,

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curvy,

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and zigzagged.

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Can you make three
straight shapes with me?

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One,

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two,

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three.

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Awesome!

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Let's make three

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curvy shapes.

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One,

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two,

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three.

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Wonderful!

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Now, let's make three zigzag shapes.

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One,

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they get to bend back and forth,

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two,

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three.

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That was so much fun.

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When we think about letters,

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we can see that they have straight,

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curvy, and zigzag shapes too.

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Let's look at a few of them.

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What letter do you see here?

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That's right, it's the letter T.

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Does the letter T have curvy shapes?

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No, it's got straight shapes!

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Can you make your body straight,

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like the letter T?

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It's got a line up and down,

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and a line side to side.

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What about this letter?

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That's right, the letter O

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is so

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curvy!

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Can you make your body round
and curvy like the letter O?

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There's more than one way to be curvy.

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Your way might be different from mine.

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This letter even sounds like "zigzag",

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Z.

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I'm gonna go down low to make my body zig

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and zag,

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like the letter Z.

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How would you make the letter Z?

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All right.

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Now that we've looked at
a few different letters,

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I am going to have a guessing game happen.

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I'm gonna make a letter with my body,

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and I want you to guess what it is.

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You can play this game wherever you are

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with the people that are around you too.

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Maybe it

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is

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a letter that you make,

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and you have someone else guess,

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or you can have someone else make a letter

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for you to guess.

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But here's the first one.

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What do you see in this shape?

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Do you see a straight line up and down,

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and a curve to one side on top?

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What does that look like to you?

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That's right, it's the letter P.

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All right, I'm gonna do a few more.

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What does this letter look like?

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It's wide on the bottom
and narrow on the top.

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It's got a point and a big
band across the middle.

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The letter A!

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Good guess!

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All right, I've got
another tricky one for you.

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What do you see here?

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It looks kind of like the letter P,

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there's a straight line up and down,

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and a curve on top,

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but then, I've got an
extra little zigzag leg.

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It's the letter

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R!

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All right, last one.

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It's narrow on the bottom and wide on top,

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the letter V!

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Do you think you could make
that letter V with me too?

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It's tricky, it makes all
your muscles work hard.

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All right, we have one more game to play.

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This is going to be a
game called Freeze Dance.

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When I say "freeze",

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we're going to freeze in
a strong letter shape.

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And when I say "dance",

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we're going to make that letter dance

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in a movement that starts with the letter.

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Let's start with our straight letter T.

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Are you ready?

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Freeze!

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And when I say "dance",
we're going to tiptoe.

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Ready?

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Dance!

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Tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe,
tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe,

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tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe,

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freeze!

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S, can you make the letter S?

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Freeze.

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And we're going to spin.

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Dance!

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Spin, spin, spin, spin,
spin, spin, spin, spin, spin,

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spin, spin, spin, freeze!

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Can you make the letter J?

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That's kind of tricky!

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And when I say "dance",

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let's

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jump.

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Jump, jump,

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jump,

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jump, jump!

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What if you jump on the other leg?

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Jump, jump, jump,

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jump,

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jump!

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Okay,

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the letter K.

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Freeze in the letter K.

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Now, we're going to
kick with the letter K.

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Make sure you can do that
safely wherever you are,

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without kicking anyone
or anything around you.

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Ready?

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Dance!

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Kick,

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kick,

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kick,

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kick,

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kick,

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kick, freeze!

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All right.

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Last one.

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This one takes a little bit of space,

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we're going to make the letter L.

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However you choose to make the letter L.

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And we're going to leap.

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It might have to be a little leap,

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or you might space to do a big leap!

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But wherever you are,

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do one

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leap.

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Ready?

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Dance!

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All right, I didn't have a lot of room,

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so my leap was little!

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That is all of the dance games

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that we have time for right now.

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I hope that we'll get to play some more,

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and dance again together soon.

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I'm Ciara with Moving Minds Dance,

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and today, we danced

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letters with our bodies.

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I hope that you can take
some of these ideas,

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and dance with them in your own life.

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You can put letters
together to make a word,

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or think about different
letters in different languages

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and alphabets that we
didn't talk about today.

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Have fun, and dance again with me soon.

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