Looking for a super fun way to help your dancers work on their goals, build team spirit and confidence? The 30 day dance challenge kit ticks all the boxes.  it is an absolute HIT with dancers.  With a combination of guided goal setting, accountability, and group motivation, the 30 day challenge is hugely successful for young dancers.  The kit consists contains everything you need to run a 30 day challenge in your studio.  Over 14 pages students are guided through the process of setting an achievable goal.  This goal is then broken down into mini-goals as dancers are introduced to the concept of step ladder goals.  The Kit provides dancers with 30 days worth of challenge charts including motivation and reflection exercises.

The 30 day dance challenge kit includes

• Goal setting guide
• SMART goal transformation
• Defining stepladder goals
• Excercise mapping
• 30 days of challenge charts
• Reflection
• Wallcharts

The challenge kit comes to you as a digital download so you can print or share it online with your dancers.  Purchase once and use for years to come.

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Unicorn Preschool Dance Class plans includes

• Fully choreographed exercises
• circuits, games, and activities.
• Full playlist
• Coloring and activity sheet pack
• Place Markers and game pieces
• Pedagogically sound curriculum focussing on 
  • Levels
  • Speed
  • Direction
  • Fine Motor Skills
  • Gross Motor Skills
  • Rhythm
  • Emotions
  • Coordination
  • Imaginative Play
• Social Media Marketing Material
• Pre-prepared Informative Flyer for Parents

All this adds up to saving your hours and hours of work! If you employ multiple Preschool teachers, just give them the link and with the click of a button, your whole staff is on the same page. The pre-prepared letter for parents and activity pack helps cement the concepts covered in class.  It also builds parental engagement and trust. These extra educational materials make it so easy to add enormous value to your program.  Not only are children enrolled in a dance class but they are also receiving educational material that supports early years education.   Parents who love your program will spread the word!  

These tried and tested class plans are based on the Preschool Ballet Blueprint, the bestselling downloadable Preschool curriculum, currently being used worldwide to deliver super popular preschool Programs.  Join the thousands of schools already enjoying these affordable and easy-to-use class plans designed in conjunction with qualified ballet teachers and childhood development professionals. 

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1. What is a correction? – a thought provoking worksheet designed to uncover deep seated attitudes and ideas about corrections.
2. Corrections – the secret code – a collection of 4 worksheets designed to help students understand corrections and interpret and implement them in a positive way
3. Types of corrections – encourages students to look beyond the most basic types of corrections and to learn how to benefit from whole class corrections and corrections aimed at other students
4. Corrections and Mindset – this set of worksheet introduces and recaps growth mindset theory and encourages students to think about how their mindset might influence their reaction to correction
5. Mindset and Mood – we all have bad days but can’t always step back to consider how our mood or the experience of our day might impact our reaction to and perception of corrections. This set of worksheets explores strategies for overcoming issues relating to mood in the studio – highly recommended for teens!
6. Mindset manipulation – this set of worksheets looks at how a simple shift in mindset can make a huge difference in dance. These lessons will lead to almost instant improvement
7. Mindset reset – this set of worksheets confronts students with a number of familiar scenarios and encourages them to consider how they have reacted to these situations in the past and how they might better react to them in the future.
8. Correction reaction – the interaction between class and teacher is incredibly powerful.  This worksheet helps students to understand how their reaction, manner and approach to class can influence their overall experience and their ability to progress.
9. Corrections – the next step – the final worksheet provides students with a road map for effectively receiving, processing and ultimately applying corrections for ultimate impact.

This pack comes to you as a digital download so you can get started right away. Purchase once and use as many times as you like.

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Hip hop – boy, girl and unicorn

Ballet – 4 sheets, 2 coloring and 2 coloring and activity sheets featuring positions of the feet

Lyrical/contemporary – boy and girl

Jazz – boy and girl

Tap – boy and girl and tap shoes

These sheets are wonderful for nurturing a love of dance within your school. They are fantastic for back to dance, for a coloring competition or to create connection during online learning.

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Included in the pack is

• Positions of the feet tracing, coloring and counting exercises
• Basic steps in ballet matching and tracing exercises
• Meanings of basic movements in dancing coloring and tracing exercises
• Beautifully illustrated famous ballet unit studies including short synopsis, crossword, featured ballet step plus activity (coloring, mazes, spot the difference)
• Class phases

The pack includes 31 pages of information, exercises and activities to introduce your younger students to basic ballet theory and start to build their knowledge of ballet.

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The Success Mindset Journal contains 50 pages of dancer specific worksheets designed to create a Success Mindset for Dancers. Modules included are

1. Growth Mindset – the first section of the journal introduces dancers to Growth Mindset as it applies specifically to dance. Dancers are encouraged to connect effort with success and to explore the concept of success beyond shiny trophies and sashes.
2. Once dancers have harnessed to power of Growth Mindset they are ready to tackle to notion of failure. Dancers slowly unpack this sometimes frightening concept and peel away the fear they may feel until Failure becomes just another stepping stone to their success. Banishing a fear of failure is incredibly powerful and a key step to paving the way to reach new levels of success.
3. Next come personal roadblocks. Dancers are encouraged to explore their own roadblocks, the fears that hold them back. Using a dancer specific process, dancers are encouraged to face their roadblocks head on and develop strategies to overcome them.
4. The next tool to learn is Laser Focus and a Unicorn Mindset. Distraction and negative thoughts have an enormous impact on dancer performance. Wobbling on skills, falling out of turns, failing to give a personal best performance, all these can be solved by learning to ignore distractions and banishing self doubt.
5. The next section can be confronting for dancers as it focusses on aligning intentions with actions. This is where dancers must decide whether the actions they take are actually in line with what they want to achieve. Did the hours they spent on social media help them to achieve their goals – are they focusing in class and fixing their corrections?
6. Once dancers have mastered growth mindset, uncovered their motivations, overcome their personal roadblocks and aligned their actions with intentions, it is time to start guided goal setting. Most goals are never achieved. Dancers work on them for a few days or a week and then forget about them entirely. This section of the journal provides dancers with the tools and knowledge they need to actually achieve their goals. These skills are life changing and can be taken forward into life beyond dancing.
7. The final section of the journal deals with Lockdown and helps dancers process the experience and scaffolds the process of learning from the Lockdown experience.

The Dancer Success Mindset journal comes to you as a downloadable PDF document so you can print it out and use as many times are you like. There is also a link to the individual worksheets so extra copies can be printed. It is envisioned that the Journal will be purchased by students or by teachers for distribution to their students. Teacher input is not required for students to use the journal though the exercises are great springboards for discussion. For Teacher specific resources with information for teachers to guide students through these skills, please see see the Growth Mindset, Success Mindset and Goal setting packs.

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Included in the pack are beautiful hand drawn illustrations meticulously designed to be to only technically accurate but also to appeal to students of today. The pack includes information worksheets including illustrations of the body position.  These are also perfect for printing and putting up in the studio, fill in the gap worksheets, and individual colouring sheets.  These sheets include an illustration of a position, plus the name and also include  space to write important points to remember.  These are an amazing teaching tool that really helps to reinforce ballet theory.  Also included are over 40 flashcards.  The flash cards include illustrations of body directions, French terminology and English translations and are fully adaptable.  You can either have the students match the pictures with just the French names or you can also include the English translations.  Only learning a few of the positions at a time?  Just give out the cards you need!  These are great for group work or in workshops.  The ballet body directions activity pack has everything your need to successfully teach the body positons.  The pack can be used in class, as take home activities or as part of camps or workshops.  The sheets are also perfect for popping up in the studio as a reference.

Your students will love the illustrations and the different activities and learning ballet theory will no longer be a struggle or a chore.  Because the body directions pack is delivered to you as  downloadable pdfs you can print as many sheets as you need over and over again!

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