VIDEO: Wolf Hill Students Dancing in the Streets

The Dance Club took to the streets -- well, really the school parking lot -- Wednesday afternoon to show parents and classmates the smooth moves they've been working on over the past eight weeks.

The 32 third and fourth grade students performed an enthusiastic dance routine to the Motown favorite "Dancing in the Streets" under the direction of their coach and school phys ed and health teacher, Jackie Walling.

"We're not perfect, we're not Broadway, but we're having fun," said Walling, who has taught for 34 years and served at one time as vice president for the New Jersey Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

She has been running the club, which meets in the morning before school, since she came to the school 14 years ago. It started, she said, to just get kids moving during the cold winter months.

"Our students are definitely dancers, movers and singers," said School Prinicipal Melanie Lipinski.

She said that Walling "infuses different cultures" into her routines and music selection, exposing to students to everything over the years from line dancing, to traditional South African dances to the Backstreet Boys.

"Movement is tied to learning," she said. "It helps train the brain."

The students took their places in alongside bright red plastic cans holding up colorful bouncy balls and marched and swayed through their routine a few times before they had had enough.

"Dance every day of your life and have fun," Walling told her students.