Rain dance
We get a newsletter from the preschool each week, and the picture below, which was in last Friday’s edition, caught my attention. Unbeknownst to me, Avery and her classmates had done a rain dance (it is really dry here!) and even made Native American headbands for the event. Her teachers explained more of what happened:
We discussed as a group the symbolism of the blue and turquoise colors (water) and feathers (wind) in their headbands. After watching a recording of a Native American rain dance on YouTube, the children decided they needed some instruments to carry out their own dance. Wearing their headbands and shaking maracas and other instruments symbolic of rain, the children danced together on the playground, chanting for rain and raising their hands up to the heavens in order to bring on the rain.
The class also talked about the importance of rain – in particular, how rain helps trees and plants grow and enables us to eat their their fruits and vegetables. Avery explained this in video over the weekend.
-M
