By Dena Wood
The Times
Junior High Students Learn the Cha Cha
Morning homeroom provides aNOTHER opportunity to expand student horizons
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Junior High teacher and informal dance instructor Ben Christensen gives Lash LaRue (pink) and Brayden Mohney a thumbs up as they practice the cha cha during homeroom on Friday.
WAITSBURG – One, two, cha-cha-cha... one, two, cha-cha-cha. Chant that phrase to a Preston Hall middle school student and they will probably grin as they showed you just how it's done.
Waitsburg middle school students spent mornings last week learning the popular Latin dance, the Cha Cha, as part of a holiday homeroom activity geared toward teaching social skills.
This year, middle school students spend the first 20 minutes of each day engaged in a homeroom activity, according to junior high social studies teacher Lynnsey Bailey. Each month was given a theme with September focusing on building...
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