Eighth Visit- Multi-Cultural Continue

We continue our journey with learning and accepting about one another and other cultures. Today we learned a song about friendship and celebration in Swahili. They will be singing this song in front of their school live next week! They will sing this song and then begin the movement portion of their performance. We started learning our African Dance. It is the first time the students have learned movement and are expected to remember it. They not only are learning about another culture they may be unfamiliar with, but they are learning important life skills such as- memorization, recall and repeat, coordination, balance, rhythm, teamwork, and the list could go on and on. They are learning a dance to a recording of djembe drums and we talked about the importance of the drummer and how the drummer is the leader and the dancers are the followers, and how we have different roles in different situations.