Movement
Aurora offers weekly Creative Learning through Movement classes for k-1 children and monthly classes for grades 2-5. These classes include group movement explorations and dynamic games which integrate cognitive, emotional and motor development. By grounding problem solving, emotional exploration and thinking in movement and expression, classes focus not only on learning how to move, but on moving as a means to learn.
The children develop, research and create their own ways of moving and explore how they can influence their actions and behaviors. Classes are designed to foster creativity, spark curiosity, enhance self-image, develop personal and interpersonal skills, encourage group participation and cooperation, and create a lifelong love for moving and learning.
Meet our Movement Specialists, Sonja and Jennifer
Movement Exploration
Structured movement explorations encourage students to develop their own unique ways of responding within the perimeters of a group activity. The children share their movement solutions, try out each other's, and put them together to create collaborative movement phrases. Embedded in the guided explorations and inquiries are developmentally appropriate opportunities for children to create their own physical experience and understanding of:
Spatial awareness
- Moving in relation to self, others and the whole group
- Shaping space, creating shapes, and shaping their actions
Body awareness
- Functional anatomy of the skeleton, muscles and viscera in motion
- Evolution of movement of humans as well as various mammals, reptiles and invertebrates
- Developmental movement from infants to toddlers to children
Rhythmic Activities
- With the use of percussion, instrumental music and song, classes explore time, space and tempo, along with other qualities of movement such as energy, weight and flow.
Dynamic Games
- We play fun, engaging running games to foster a love for movement and fitness.
- We invent games based on cooperative learning and group effort to develop mutual respect and appreciation for others