{"id":241,"date":"2011-09-18T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:52:57","slug":"zumbatomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/zumbatomics\/","title":{"rendered":"ZumbAtomics!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pic is from this past summer–a dancing moment I had with Fernando \ud83d\ude09 The pug portrait on the wall behind me is a painting I did of my first beloved pug named Weldon (Weldy).<\/i><\/div>\n

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I had so much fun teaching ZumbAtomics this past Friday. I have 11 students–one boy. We danced for 45 minutes and then played 2 dance games. The kids have so much energy and are so open to using their imaginations. For example, one song we dance to has a calypso beat. I told the kids to imagine that we were in Brazil at a carnival dancing in the streets to the song. One little girl asked, “don’t they speak another language in Brazil?” I said, “Yes, they speak Portuguese.” She said, “Do you speak Portuguese?” I told her no, but to pretend that I was speaking it and that everyone could understand my Portuguese. They were all game to pretend to be Brazilians,\u00a0speaking Portuguese for the song!
Their favourite song was the Chihuahua song. I felt happy about that because I invented all of the choreography for that song myself–sometimes we dance as though we are the owner of a wild little chihuahua and sometimes we dance as though we are the naughty little dog ourselves. I get them to do their best chihuahua howl at the end of the song.
\u00a0I realize one of the reasons I love teaching Zumba so much is that it feels just like the days when I was a high school cheerleader. I loved being a cheerleader–dancing, stomping, clapping and the odd woot-woot brings all the fun back to me \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pic is from this past summer–a dancing moment I had with Fernando \ud83d\ude09 The pug portrait on the wall behind me is a painting I did of my first beloved pug named Weldon (Weldy). I had so much fun teaching … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[543],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-zumba-zumbatomics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t