This is the final learning project blog and we are reflecting on the project as a whole. What a wonderful building opportunity for a mama and her toddler. We had so much fun picking up many styles of dance together, and now my boys have access to many different dance channels to get out the dance itch and to get active in their daily life. When I started the learning project, I didnt know how my toddler would respond…but now all he asks to do is to dance, and he has some cool moves to go back to from this project. The Youtubers we learned from: https://www.youtube.com/@SamCamsCreations (Ballet) https://www.youtube.com/@mihrantv (Hip-Hop)…

  Aloha! This week for the learning project we decided to learn how to Hula with this youtube channel: Miss Jessica’s World. The video of selection is called: Learn how to Hula in Miss Jessica’s World and the instructor’s name is Ava Rae Luna. What a fun little lesson for my kids to learn. I, unfortunately, did not capture any footage of my toddler dancing to it this week, but he was hula”ing” his hips away. In the video, you will see me and my two-year-old dancing to the lesson and he also loved it: Mother and Two-Year-Old Hula. In the video, we learned that the hula dance is a Polynesian dance…

This week we are looking at the Youtube Channel Koo Koo Kanga Roo! This was again a recommendation from a viewer of the learning project blog, and I am so happy someone recommended it! Super fun dance channel and the guys are so engaging. They give me Flight of the Concord vibes but the kid edition. Here is the link to the channel: Koo Koo Kanga Roo. We specifically chose the superhero dance video because why not!? It was SUPER fun *insert wink, and the dance moves were nice and easy, meaning they were slower, more consistent, and repetitive. So this made it very toddler friendly to follow. Here is…

  This week for the learning project I found a fella on Youtube, and his channel is called “Danny Go!”; I will link his channel here: Danny Go! What a fun channel for kids to get up and move with super fun themes in the dance videos! The one that my toddler tried out with my two-year-old is called “Wiggle, Freeze, Spin + more! | Dance Along | Dance Compilation | Danny Go! Songs for Kids”. We definitely wiggled, we definitely froze, and we spun till we fell to the ground! I showed him a couple of Danny’s videos, such a Halloween-themed one. I am going to link the video…

Last time I posted in the learning blog, I had a viewer suggest in the comments that I take on the challenge of the dance style Soca with my toddler! Super fun style, if you are interested in learning about the dance style Soca, i’ll link some further info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soca_Dance. This was probably my toddlers’ favourite dance style, it was upbeat, quite easy to follow, and just a party! We followed along with DJRaphi, here is his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DJRaphi. This specific video we chose was called “Follow the Leader Dance”, which is also linked here: Follow the Leader Dance. Also, you have to see the result of my toddler dancing to…

Welcome back to another week where we are dancing with TODDLERS! Today we chose a fun Zumba dance from the channel “ZUMBAwithDovydas“. The video we selected is Zumba kids (easy dance) – i like to move it. My son had lots of fun with it! It was a easy to follow dance, which was very upbeat, and short in duration so that he could keep his attention long enough to follow it. I really Dovydas because he keeps the viewers attention and seems to have a lot of fun with it. I will insert a video link of my son dancing to one of Dovydas video’s here: Son Dances to Dovydas. I…

This week for our learning project, my toddler and I tried to attempt a Hip-Hop lesson from MihranTV on Youtube. You can follow the link to their video here: MihranTV Hip-Hop Lessons For Toddlers. I have also had the opportunity to film some of the dancing through my iPhone and also was able to edit the video through an extension called Screencastify. If you would like to know more about Screencastify, you can read about it in my blog! Here is the video of my Toddler dancing to MirhanTV video: https://watch.screencastify.com/v/YGYl2F5jBHOCeBaiPDJ0. The overall impression of this dance lesson was that it wasn’t very exciting or eccentric. My three-year-old is almost four…

This week my toddler and I started our first dance lesson for the Learning Project. I asked him “Do you want to do a dance lesson with mommy??” and he jumped with joy with a big “YES!”. My almost two year old also chimed in as well with excitement and decided to join the activity. I began my dance lesson search on Youtube. I searched “Dance lessons for toddlers” and there was a plethora of options out there. The video of choice was by SamCam, titled “Free Online Toddler Frozen Dance Class”, which you can click the following link to find: https://youtu.be/iG6rxoVWRoQ. She’s a very kind, and upbeat instructor, which caught…

What if I told you that a mother will teach her three year old a dance routine? Actually…lets back track, what if I told you that a mother was going to ATTEMPT to teach her three year old how to dance? That would be much more of a possible outcome. I have always danced with my kids as a way to connect with them, get them connecting with musical art, as well as for mental health purposes. My three year old has a good sense of moving and also in synchronization with music. So with all these things in mind, I thought, what a great bonding experience for my son…