Laken Coppinger and the rest of her 4- and 5-year-old classmates dance with heart at Primrose School of East Brainerd, but they actually are dancing for their hearts.
“It gets you strong muscles,” she said.
Since the heart is, in fact, a muscle, Laken, 4, is on to something besides “jumping and fun,” which she said are the best things about dancing.
Dan Case, franchise owner of the school, said dancing is a part of the minimum of 30 minutes a day of gross motor skill activities children receive as part of their curriculum.