Benefits of Preschool Movement Classes at BA Studios in Tucson, AZ 👶🌵

A dance class brings such a ✨ magical element ✨ to a child's life. The clean, open studio, the soft music, and the chance to embrace their imagination with movement can provide so many benefits to a child's mental and physical development.

Before we even learn to speak, we use motions and gestures to learn to communicate effectively and to learn and change ideas about ourselves, our friends, family members, and the environment. Every child is born with creativity that should be cultivated, making it a crucial part of their development.

Dance classes promote artistic exploration, practice of positive social skills, and multidisciplinary education. Dance will increase fine and gross motor skills like hand/eye coordination, balance, increased flexibility, and teach spatial awareness.

1. Artistic Exploration 🎨 🎶 :

In the early stages of development, it's important to encourage some artistic freedom. Dance gives children an opportunity to explore new, fun movements, musicality and rhythm, and use their imagination to be the best versions of themselves. With fun activities, educational games, and learning to count and dance to music, children have a chance to grow their own personal artistic skills.

Need some fun ideas of dance games to try at home? Click below! ⬇️

10 Fun Dancing Games for Kids

2. Positive Social Skills 🗣 :

Children have a lot to say and sometimes can't express it. Our movement classes can help children improve their social and communication skills, learn how to work as part of a team, develop a greater sense of trust and cooperation, and make new friends. With opportunities to move and talk in a structured studio, young students can learn how to communicate in a kind and positive manner.

3. Improved Motor Skills 🏋️‍♀️ :

Kids learn the basics like walking, running, and jumping but what's next? It's important kiddos are taught basic movements like skipping, hopping, gliding, and more. Why? Learning and mastering these basic movements helps increase coordination, flexibility, balance, posture, and best of all, can prevent future injuries. Kids love to move, why not teach them ways to do it safely?

4. Spatial Awareness 👯‍♀️ :

Kids love to explore and love to wiggle. The key to promoting positive spatial awareness in kids is giving them opportunities to explore their surroundings. Your child is beginning to build spatial vocabulary with words like: above, below, inside, outside, etc. With dance classes, your child can practice these terms verbally and physically. They can learn spatial awareness with other dancers, and how to appreciate being respectful others space. With the chance to practice performance dances, students also learn stage terms like right, left, center, downstage, upstage, etc.

💕 What to Expect at the BA Studios Preschool Movement Classes:

Our Preschool Movement classes are recommended for students ages 3-5, and are intended to get those wiggles out!

We will warm up for 5 minutes, play dance games and challenges for 20 minutes, freestyle dance for 10 minutes, and end class with story time for 10 minutes. Having fun with movement while keeping it short and sweet!

Our program breaks down to one unit each week:

Week 1: Introduction to Movement: What is Dance?

Week 2: Range of Motion: Space & Levels (low, mid, high/ light-strong/ little-big)

Week 3: Speed of Movement (Fast & Slow)

Week 4: Rotations

Week 5: Jumps and Leaps

Week 6: Creativity and Expressions

Week 7: Dancing with Props

Week 8: Symmetrical Movement: Mirror and Reversing

Classes also include a variety of themes likes colors, letters, animals, plants, food, traveling, fairytales, holidays, sports, space, seasons, exercise and fitness, super heroes, and more!

Final Notes:

✨ Your child has the opportunity to perform with BA Studios. We want to give your child a truly authentic dance experience with the chance to perform for their friends and family.

✨ We offer two available days. Group A is together Mondays from 10:45am-11:30am, and Group B meets Wednesdays from 10:45am-11:30am. Pick a Group and plan for that day. BUT sometimes our little ones have tough days...you can attend the other group as a make up that week! Woohoo!