Core Skills Analysis
Physical Education and Movement
The child watched a Disney on Ice performance, where skating and movement on ice were central to the show. The activity offered an opportunity to notice how performers used balance, posture, and coordinated movements while traveling across the ice. Watching these movements could help the child recognize that skating combines physical control, timing, and artistic expression.
Theater and Performing Arts
The child experienced a live performance that brought Disney stories and characters to the ice. The show demonstrated how performers could communicate ideas and emotions through movement, costumes, music, and staging. This experience helped the child encounter storytelling as a form of performance that combines visual and physical elements.
Tips
Tips After the show, invite the child to draw a favorite moment and describe the movements or stage details that stood out. Try a safe, simple balance-and-movement activity at home, such as copying a performer’s pose on solid ground and noticing how posture affects balance. Create a short story featuring a character who travels across an imaginary frozen world, then act it out with music and gestures. If practical, explore how ice skating works by watching a skating demonstration or discussing the equipment and safety practices used by skaters.
Book Recommendations
- Mickey's Christmas Carol by Walt Disney Company: A picture-book retelling of a familiar Disney story, suitable for connecting a live Disney performance with storytelling and characters.
- The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann: A classic story often adapted for the stage, offering a way to explore how stories can be presented through performance.
- Tacky and the Winter Games by Helen Lester: A humorous winter-themed picture book that can prompt conversation about movement, sports, and characters.
Learning Standards
- Common Core ELA—CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K-2.2: Recounting or describing details from a performance can support comprehension of information presented orally or through media.
- Common Core ELA—CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K-2.4: Describing a favorite scene or performance detail supports clear speaking about an experience.
- Common Core ELA—CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K-2.3: Writing or dictating a story inspired by the performance supports narrative development.
- Common Core Mathematics—CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1: Noticing and naming shapes in costumes, scenery, or performers’ poses can support recognition of geometric shapes in the environment.
Try This Next
- Draw a favorite scene and label the performers’ poses, costumes, or stage details.
- Write three questions about how music, movement, or costumes helped tell the story.
- Create a short character scene using safe, simple movements on a non-slippery surface.