Dance in physical education in second grade

This paper is about the integration of creative movement in dancing games of physical education in second grade, why it is so important, its impact and how to prepare a lesson plan that concludes all that. It contains the examples of this lesson plans which fulfill the goals from the curriculum for physical education in second grade and its analyses in second grade of elementary school Skrilje, where there are 11 girls and 10 boys. In theoretical part I explained, what movement is and which movements do we know. I also defined what dance is and found how it is correlated to physical education. It seemed important to write down, that Zagorc claims, that we should put contemporary dance in primary school and I justified that. Then there are goals and aims of dance content that were important for the empirical part and they helped me with writing the lesson plans. After all teachers sometimes make little mistakes so I've written a page about the role of a teacher and when to be careful when we give dance lessons. In the empirical part I was wondering if there is enough dance content and which are the basic and optimal levels of dance knowledge. The goal of this thesis was to analyze the curriculum for physical education in second grade from the point of view of dance lessons and to make lesson plans which contain good examples of dance activities and they will also achieve all of the goals for dance in physical education in second grade. As a method I used action researching and I was looking to find the answers to this research questions: • R1: What is the quantity and what are the ways to integrate dance in curriculum for physical education in second grade of primary school? • R2: How can we conclude creative dance in curriculum for physical education in second grade? • R3: What are the child responses to creative dance activities? I found out that creative movement stimulates children's imagination, self-dependence and is necessary for their development which was shown through child response