The First HIGHLAND DANCE Lesson

Discovery 

On Fridays in my school we do a thing called discovery.  That's when teachers put up activities on
slides and other teachers read those out loud to their class.  Children are aloud to do these things t
oo, make a slide and let teachers read them to the classes so they can go to these activities and last
week that's what I did.  I go to highland dancing lessons on Wednesdays but haven't been recently
because of the lock down.  The lessons haven't started again yet, so I'm holding them myself at schools
on friday.  I'm going to tell you about the first lesson.

Positions 

Once discovery started I got myself ready. The music came off my chromebook most of the time,
at the beginning it came out of a speaker.  When the group got there I turned on the music. 
That's when I taught them the first step. Of course I had to teach them the positions, first position was
feet out like a V. Second position was one foot out like a V but the other pointing to the side, and the
last position I taught them was third position, that's when you have big toe to big toe.  They are quite
simaler to ballet positions and there are more positions but that's all I taught them.  

The dance 

First step is the easiest step.  You hop on one foot arm in the air, with your middle finger on your thumb.
  I was pretty impressed by how well they did.   I had a few come and go throughout the lesson and the
one that stayed out of those people was the best in the group. They all did pretty well in the first step,
they did pretty well in the second step to.  The third step was a bit trickier.  It was called toe-heal,  they
all got confused when I started doing it.  Then when I explained it and they had copied me one or two
times they understood.  With the last step they got it right away, but they were really tired by then. 
By the time they managed to get we were all tired.  I said they were allowed to get a drink if they
wanted but they didn't.  They wanted to learn how to do some skipping that goes with another
highland dance called the jig. (That's what I´ĺlbe teaching them this week.)  they were really happy. 
Hopefully this week will be just as successful.

What I learnt

THis was what I wanted to write about because of what I learnt.  I learnt to teach people and how hard it
can be.  I was also learning how amazing others abilities are compared to mine. 
Lastly I learnt more of what I already know.  I just got better at highland dancing. 
That is what I found amazing about it.

THE END

Here´s a photo from at the beginning of the
lesson with my friend Cornelia dancing in the lead!!
She was a big help.