Mary Frances Massey www.maryfrancesmassey.com
Mary Frances Massey is the Director of North Mississippi Dance Centre in Tupelo, Mississippi where they offer classes in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Modern & more. Massey’s teaching programs include incorporating movement into the narration of favorite children’s books and using movement to teach core classes, most notably her program “Math & Hip Hop”©. She also offers teacher development workshops and artist residencies. She is a teaching artist with the Mississippi Arts Commission & Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education. She is also on the Mississippi Arts Commission Artist Roster as a musician with her partner, Paul Tate.
Contact Mary Frances Massey at maryfrancesmassey@gmail.com
Sample Programs Offered
Program Type: Arts Integration
Program Description:
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This arts integration lesson was created as a way to get students to be active while learning.
The students will :
- Learn the movements that go along with each number and symbol movements that go along with each number and symbol
- Piece together math problems using the Math & Hip Hop “Formula”
- Make more advanced problems, adding in larger numbers, multiplication, etc.
- Break into groups and create one addition or subtraction problem and one multiplication
or division problem.
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Program Type: Arts Curriculum, Arts Integration
Program Description:
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This lesson was created as a way to get your
students talking about their emotions & to be active while learning. Students will hear a reading of Dr. Seuss’s book “My Many Colored Days” and then learn dance movements connected to vocabulary and emotions used in the book.
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Program Type: Arts Integration
Program Description:
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Using vocabulary from 2nd grade student’s unit on life cycle and growth, I created this track for Movement in Core curriculum. Focusing particularly on Sunflowers, I used Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Spring as an upbeat and enriching piece of music for the children to dance to. Using the vocabulary as a guide line, I will also ask the children what characteristics sunflowers have. Hopefully the students will point out that sunflowers grow tall, can have many colors, have pollen and fallow the sun during the day.
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