Oak Grove Dance and Drama

Friday, October 16, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Rehearsing Choreography with the Show Choir

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mark Burton - Integrating the Arts with Drama & Dance

Mr. Mark

Acting out weather changes. Can you guess which season this is?

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Arts Integration -

...is great because not all students are good with the written word — some express ideas best in pictures, while others problem-solve through music or movement.

Making letters and shape using movement activities during PE classes.

Crossing the Midline, Cross lateral Movement and Brain Development

Crossing the Midline, Cross-Lateral Movement & Brain Development "Crossing the midline" refers to the ability to move a part of the body-- such as a hand, foot or eye-- into the space of the other hand, foot or eye. Being able to cross the midline indicates that the child has reached the point in his or her development that the right and left side of the brain are working in tandem. An example of crossing the midline is using your right hand to reach over your body and scratch your left elbow. Connecting the two sides of the brain is a fiber bridge known as the corpus callosum. When children do cross-lateral movements (arm and leg movements that cross over from one side of the body to the other) the two sides of the brain are forced to communicate and this strengthens the nerve-cell pathways that link both sides of the brain through the corpus callosum. Crossing the midline is necessary for reading and writing because in order to read and write one must work from one side of the paper to the other fluidly.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Conducting the Orchestra