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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're going to write letters and words

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with our movements and our bodies.

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Wherever you are, all you need is your body

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to do this activity.

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We're going to look at some words together,

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but if you have books or,

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just know what words and letters look like

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in different languages and alphabets,

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then you can use those too.

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We are going to start by drawing pathways. In dance,

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we think about how a shape can be straight

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or curvy or zig-zagged,

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and the pathway that we use just follows that shape.

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So a straight pathway draws a straight line

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and a curve pathway draws a curvy line,

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and a zigzag pathway goes back and forth and back and forth

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to draw a zigzag line.

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When we read, we look at the shapes that letters make

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and have to remember what those look like,

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like the letter T,

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when we write, we have to be able to draw

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the letter on the paper.

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So we trace the pathway that those lines make.

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Let's trace the pathway of some letters together.

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We're going to start with a straight pathway

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that goes up and down, like the letter I.

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Let's do it all together,

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up and down.

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Now we're gonna make a curvy pathway like the letter O,

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let's do a curvy circle.

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You can make it as big or as small as you want,

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that was a big one, but we could draw a little O too.

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Now, a zigzag can go back and forth

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or it can go up and down.

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We can draw a letter Z with a back and forth zigzag.

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Let's do that all together,

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Z, and we can draw a W with an up and down zigzag,

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let's try that all together, W.

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Good, now let's draw a few letters in order.

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We're gonna put them together and see if they make a word.

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When we do this, I want you to think about

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making these letters as big as you can.

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So let's start way up high above our heads

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and draw a huge curve to make the letter C,

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let's do that one more time together, C.

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And then we're going to make a letter A,

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starting down low, and there's kind of a zigzag at the top

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and a line across the middle.

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And then we'll make the letter T,

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big line across and a line going down.

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C-A-T, let's put all of them together

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and see if we can think of what word that spells.

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Start up high and draw the letter C,

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next letter, A,

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next letter, T,

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C-A-T,

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what does that spell?

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Cat, that's right,

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we spelled the word cat.

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Now we're gonna spell one more word altogether.

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We're going to spell your name.

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Well, I'm going to spell my name and you can spell yours.

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This is what my name looks like,

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Ciara.

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It has five letters,

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C-I-A-R-A,

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Ciara.

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Your name might look different from mine.

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This is a good time in our lesson,

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if you want to make sure that you can see your name

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in front of you on a piece of paper

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or on a wall, anywhere, or even in your brain,

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if you can close your eyes

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and think about what your name looks like,

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that's all you need.

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We are going to spell our names together,

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but instead of writing it on a piece of paper,

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we're going to dance it in the air.

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My name has five letters,

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so my name dance will have five movements.

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Yours might be different from mine, and that's amazing.

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All right, let's get started.

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The first letter in my name is a C,

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what's the first letter in your name?

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The second letter in my name is an I,

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what's the second letter in your name?

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The next letter in my name is an A,

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and after that, I have an R,

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and the last letter in my name is another A.

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You might have more letters than me,

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so you can keep going if you're not done yet.

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We're going to do our names all together one more time,

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spelling every letter in our name,

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and then we're gonna make it a little trickier.

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Are you ready?

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Here we go.

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First letter, C-I-A-R-A,

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awesome.

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All right, we are going to do our names one more time,

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but now we're gonna make it a little more exciting

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with our dancing.

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We're going to think about the fact that

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we don't need to write with our finger and our arm,

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we can write with any part of our body.

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You could write with your elbow

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or you could write with your head,

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or you could write with your toe on the floor below you

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or even your knee on the floor.

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You could right above your head with your nose,

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or you could write to the side of you with your hip.

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You have so many options.

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Your body can do so many amazing things.

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So we're going to think about

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using a different part of our body

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for every single movement in our dance.

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We're just gonna come up with it on our own in the moment.

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So, I'm gonna come over here

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and do the first letter of my name with my elbow,

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a letter C,

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what did you decide?

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I'm gonna do a jump for my letter I,

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you might do something different.

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For my letter A, I'm gonna draw it on the floor

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with my toe,

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and for my letter R, I'm going to use my head.

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And then for my next letter, A,

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I'm going to use my knee in the air.

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What did you decide for all of your letters?

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Let's do them all together one more time,

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this is your name dance.

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Are you ready?

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First letter,

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second letter,

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third letter,

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fourth letter,

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fifth letter,

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and keep going if you're not done yet,

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you might've ended before me too.

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Thank you so much for doing that really

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fun activity with me.

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Now, we only spelled one word today, we spelled our names,

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but there are so many more words in the world in English

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and in every other language,

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you could spell your name in a different language too.

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We talked about what my name looks like,

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but I have a favorite word.

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My favorite word is wonder.

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I could do a dance spelling my favorite word.

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Do you have a favorite word?

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You could make a dance to spell that.

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How would you choose what body parts to use

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or where to write the letters?

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There're so many ideas to play with,

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and however you choose to do that,

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I hope you have fun.

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I'm Ciara with Moving Minds Dance,

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and today we wrote words with our bodies.

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You can do that wherever you are with new words,

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and with more words,

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you could write a whole sentence,

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but I hope you have fun if you do.

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Come back and dance with me again soon.

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(upbeat music)