{"id":388,"date":"2013-01-06T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/?p=388"},"modified":"2013-01-06T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T20:41:00","slug":"fred-astaire-dance-lessons-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/blog\/uncategorized\/fred-astaire-dance-lessons-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Lessons for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #666666\">The\u00a0<b><i>Fred Astaire\u2019s Preschool dance program<\/i><\/b>\u00a0allows children to enhance their movement, singing and body awareness skills.\u00a0 Your child will show improvement in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>balance<\/li>\n<li>music\u00a0and\u00a0tempo<\/li>\n<li>motor skills<\/li>\n<li>flexibility<\/li>\n<li>good pre-technique skills like posture, leg and foot positions, \u00a0pointing and stretching<\/li>\n<li>rhythm<\/li>\n<li>coordination<\/li>\n<li>balance<\/li>\n<li>confidence<\/li>\n<li>spatial awareness movements like up\/down, left\/right<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We focus on fundamental ballet and tap movements, like plies and battements, shuffles and rhythms.\u00a0 But we also explore different musical genres like MUSIC FOR AARDVARKS to James Taylor to Classical to Reggae and more.\u00a0 Our goal is to improve your preschoolersand body movements such as twisting, turning, spinning, leaping, hopping, spiraling, rolling, and more.\u00a0 Movements like crawling, crab-walks, bear-walks and more will build your child\u2019s muscles.\u00a0 They will also encounter social skills like listening, taking turns, team-work and following-directions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">With dance core basics, we aim to help your child stay active and healthy.\u00a0 There\u2019s no telling what a 3, 4 and 5 year old can\u00a0 absorb or retain as far as a \u201croutine.\u201d \u00a0 Our program is <em>not about recitals or costumes<\/em> and showing-off for Grandma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">We aim to help your child develop a love for dancing and moving his or her body, and expressing emotions.\u00a0 Young children have an affinity toward music, movement and dance.\u00a0 We will help them burn calories and energy, strengthen their muscles, improve flexibility, provide an emotional outlet.\u00a0 They will sleep better!\u00a0 We will ask them to move like they are excited, or angry, or happy.\u00a0 They will gain praise expressing themselves, they will have greater self-esteem and confidence, and emotional awareness.\u00a0 We\u2019ll also explore manners and \u201cnoise-pollution\u201d such as screaming in a small space, and being kind to your neighbors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">We also employs techniques like puppet-command, and Simon Says only backwards. As the mother of a 4 year-old, Carrie constantly read and research\u00a0preschool blogs, teacher blogs, parenting books and brain-books.\u00a0 While she doesn\u2019t promise to engage every four-year-old in every class all the time, she does promise to provide the most current and up-to-date techniques to help your child become stronger and more advanced and a better thinker. \u00a0 In\u00a0<a style=\"color: #946d57\" href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/23\/simon-says-dont-use-flashcards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/23\/simon-says-dont-use-flashcards\/<\/a>, Tara Parker Pope says \u201cThe key to games education is to start with a simple game and add increasingly complicated rules. For instance, Oregon researchers have developed a game called Head-to-Toes, which they use to assess preschool children\u2019s development. Initially, the child copies the teacher\u2019s movements, touching her head or toes. But later, the child is expected to do the opposite, touching her toes when the teacher touches her head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">While the game may sound simple, it actually requires a high level of cognitive function for a preschooler, including focus and attention, working memory to remember rules, mental flexibility (to do the opposite) and self-control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">The Best Part of Fred Astaire&#8217;s Pre-Dance Program \u2013 your child is in charge.\u00a0 If she\/he wants to wear tights and tutus and leotards, great.\u00a0 But we know first-hand what it\u2019s like to get a tired pre-schooler to change into a required garment.\u00a0 We\u2019re big proponents of child-led activity.\u00a0 If your child is ok with a bun and pink ballet slippers? Great.\u00a0 But if they want to come in their after-school clothes, and are having trouble focusing\u2026 we are ok with that too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">We want your child to love coming to dance. \u00a0 We will make his\/her classes the highlight of your week.\u00a0 And you or your Nanny can walk to the studio.\u00a0 Best of all, we think, is you don\u2019t have to stay.\u00a0 You can drop off your child.\u00a0 We\u2019ll always have a teacher in the class, and a teacher outside the class to help with potty-breaks, drinks-of-water and the occasional emotional-melt-down.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"color: #666666\">Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:45PM<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #666666\">$90 for a 6-week session<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #666666\">Sessions are paid in full prior to the start of each session<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #666666\">Ages 3.5-6 welcome<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #666666\">Ballet shoes\u00a0are required<\/h4>\n<p>973-783-8999 for questions<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">We also do birthday parties!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Fred Astaire\u2019s Preschool dance program\u00a0allows children to enhance their movement, singing and body awareness skills.\u00a0 Your child will show improvement in: balance music\u00a0and\u00a0tempo motor skills flexibility good pre-technique skills like posture, leg and foot positions, \u00a0pointing and stretching rhythm coordination balance confidence spatial awareness movements like up\/down, left\/right We focus on fundamental ballet and tap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballroom-lessons","tag-dance","tag-dance-for-my-3-year-old","tag-dance-lessons-for-4-year-old","tag-dance-near-montclair","tag-dance-programs","tag-exercise","tag-fred-astaire","tag-kids-dance-lessons","tag-movement-classes","tag-preschool-dance-lessons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}