Dance and Zumba Season 2

We have been working with the Hougang Care Centre for 2 seasons now and have learnt a lot more about them, regarding their interests and needs. As mentioned in my season 1 reflection, we planned to rely on Zumba videos on youtube for the members to follow. However, we found that Zumba was a very high energy activity which relies on more physical capacity. The members of the care centre, on the other hand, are not very physically active so it was very difficult for them to keep up. As they weren’t able to keep up, they wouldn’t participate which forced us to plan activities for those who didn’t want to dance. Some examples were drawing or playing Jenga. However, this required alot of pre planned planning as we had to contant the service department for the resources for that session like food and