Dec 16, 2009

Clogging Christmas

Making Christmas placemats. Saying the Girl Scout Promise
Yum...Pizza!Daisy Troop #40583 with Brownie Troop #40404
Now let's learn how to style the step. Get up on the balls of your feet. Step with your left foot, then put your right foot back just a little and rock your weight back onto it, then step on your left foot again.
BFF's all in Mrs. Shannon Housley's 1st grade class
Mrs. Christy and her daughter Katelyn
Thanks to Mrs Christina Layne for coming and showing the girls basic clogging steps and then performing for them. She said she had been clogging for about 20 years and still loved it! They loved they way her clogging shoes sounded on the gym floor...


Clogging, or clog dancing, is a lively dance with roots in Irish jig, English country dances, Scottish dances, African steps and rhythms and possibly even a bit of Cherokee Indian. It is a percussive dance, meaning the dancers beat out rhythms with their feet. Settlers brought their own dances and music to the Southern Appalachian Mountain area, where they were relatively isolated from other parts of the country. These steps and styles mixed together into what we now call clogging.

Mrs Tricia saved the day by bringing her camera...I forgot mine! oops

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