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Area students try dancing their way onto the Ellen Degeneres Show


Mark Twain Students take part in school-wide dance
Mark Twain Students take part in school-wide dance

A chance to shine on the Ellen Degeneres Show brought students at Mark Twain Elementary out Friday to take part in a school-wide dance.

More than 350 students, faculty, and staff members at Mark Twain danced to ‘Uptown Funk’ as part of Michelle Obama’s “Get Fit” campaign.

“We are doing the get five dance that Michelle Obama and Ellen did on the Ellen Show,” said Susan Farmer, Mark Twain school nurse. “We are going to send it into Ellen and then maybe get us on the Ellen show.”

Students were recorded doing the dance and the district will send it in to the Ellen Show for a chance to be seen on national television.

“It just gets all your body parts moving your arms, your legs,” said Farmer. “The whole thing is Mrs. Obama wants everybody to start getting fit so it is get fit five so you come up with five healthy things to do.”

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