The purpose of this study is to provide ways of effectively instructing lower-grade elementary school students with expression activity as a basic step of dance educaion. For the purpose this researcher selected sections each of which coule be instructed in the form of physical expression activity. from educational curricular courses for 1st-grade elementary school students and reorganized those sections with a cariety of expression activities interesting to those students. Then the researcher developed 10 physical expression activity programs and applied them to 35 students in their 1st grade of elementary school. After the application, the researcher made a questionnaire survey of those students and another similar survey of their parents to dtermind responses by both of them . Data from the surveys and free descriptions by those students can be summarized as follows: 1. 1st- grade elementary school students surveyed here liked all physical expression activities including expressing playing instruments and singing. 2. Most of the surveyed students felt much interested and pleased about physical expression activities and felt attractive about rewards. 3. The parents surveyed here perceived that physical expression activities are educational and effective in raising creativity. 4. Praising and encouraging lower-grade elementary school students should be made in better ways after it is considered that rewards to those students might have hegative consequences. Teachers need instruct those students no to be much competitive of struggling with each other in making group presentaions.