Come dance with me

The children love mimicking what we do. They follow us around, repeat what we say and are always watching to see what we do next. Thanks to Jon Anderson and the staff at Fort Wilderness, children all over the world will be "driving the bus"forever and ever. Music seems to be one of the few things that focuses the children on the task at hand. The task being dancing. They love to dance, and they have quite creative moves, comparable to Jon's "tiny bow and arrow" and "man dance" moves. These kids are not afraid to get loose and boogie down. On our very first day we taught them the bus driving dance and now they ask for it by name every day, knowing that it will inevitably lead to more songs and more dancing.

For those of you that don't know, the bus driving dance is a simple dance consisting of a lot of silly moves. There is really no order, and whoever is leading just starts doing what they want to do next and everyone follows. Moves include: driving the bus, hugging the cow, mowing the lawn, grocery shopping, etc. They follow our moves until we call out a name of a child, who then comes up with a new move that everyone follows. We all just stand in one big clump around the music flailing about and laughing loudly.

I don't care what people say about math... music is the true universal language. As long as you've got the beat, you can turn any rainy day into a dance party.