Alvin Ailey Kids
Dancing as a Team
Click Clack Moo
Cows that Type
Vocabulary
100
What do the kids do at the Alvin Ailey School?
practice dancing
100
In the Spring, the students have to prepare for something. What is it?
The performance
100
What did the cows and hens want?
Electric blankets
100
The cows suggested an exchange to Farmer Brown. What was it?
To trade the typewriter for electric blankets
100
mood
a feeling
200
What dances do they learn?
Ballet, Tap, Capoeira
200
What is the last practice called?
The dress rehearsal
200
What is an electric blanket?
A blanket that plugs into the wall to warm itself
200
What is something that we use to type on today?
A computer
200
perform
to put on a show for others
300
True or False: In Capoeira, the dancers dance in a line, wear tap shoes.
False. They dance in a circle with bare feet and do kicks and jumps.
300
What does the stage manager do?
Teach the students to enter and exit the stage properly
300
What did the cows do when Farmer Brown did not give them what they wanted?
They went on strike.
300
Why was Farmer Brown furious?
Because he cannot run a farm without milk or eggs.
300
remember
not forget
400
Fill in the blank: Dance helps me to ______ myself.
Express
400
How is the performance different from the practice?
The dancers are on a big stage bright lights, and their teachers are not on stage with them.
400
Farmer Brown firmly asked the hens and cows for milk and eggs. What word means to ask firmly, or to ask with authority?
Demand
400
Who runs the farm?
Farmer Brown
400
How might the students and parents feel after the performance?
proud
500
How is the mood in tap class different from the mood in ballet?
The music is jazzy and the shoes are noisy
500
Who watches the students perform? (The parents are part of the ______)
The audience
500
Duck was a neutral party. What does neutral mean?
Not helping either side in an argument
500
Say this word: Clickety
Click-e-ty
500
snoop
to look through someone's private things
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