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EDUCATION II
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
OBJECTIVES OF RHYTHMIC
ACTIVITIES
1. Develop skills necessary for recreational
enjoyment.
2. Maintain good posture and physical
efficiency.
3. Promote emotional freedom.
4. Develop a balanced and well-coordinated
body.
WHAT IS RHYTHM?
■a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or
sound.
■the systematic arrangement of musical sounds,
principally according to duration and periodic
stress.
■a regularly recurring sequence of events, actions,
or processes.
■the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented
beats.
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
■are the physical manifestations of the
mental and emotional response of the
individual to rhythm.
■they are activities which a child responds
to physically, socially, and mentally to
regular patterns of sound.
■they are also a source of enjoyment for
people of all ages.
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
■through these activities, skills and the sense of
rhythm are acquired and developed, feelings
are expressed, basic principles of time, space
and force can be experienced.
■everyone reacts to music or rhythm in one form
or another. A head swaying, a
foot tapping, fingers snapping, shoulders and
body moving while a musical piece is
played are physical reactions.
DANCE
WHAT IS DANCE?
■Move rhythmically to music, typically
following a set sequence of steps.
■It refers to movement set to music where
there emerges
organization, structure and pattern.
■It is a composition that implies arrangement
of parts into a form.
WHAT IS DANCING?
■is a means of expressing one’s emotions through
movement disciplined by rhythm.
■It is an act of moving rhythmically and
expressively to an accompaniment.
■The word dancing came from an old German word
“danson” which means to “stretch”.
■Essentially, all dancing is made up of stretching
and relaxing.
THE BASIC
NATURAL
MOVEMENTS
LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS
■are those that move the body in space in any
direction with the feet as the moving base.
Examples:
•Walking
•Running •Skipping
•Jumping •Leaping
•Hopping • Galloping
and Sliding
NON-LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS