GROSS
MOTOR: Jump, Push/Pull, Roll Our Bodies GROSS
MOTOR: Jump, Push/Pull, Roll Our Bodies
Draw a star on the sidewalk and have children "jump" from the tips of one point to another.
Can you jump while jingling bells and singing Jingle Bells?
Push and
Pull
Lecture Notes and Random Activities:
*Push a nonbreakable round
Christmas tree ornament along the floor with your nose.
*As
part of an obstacle course, have children pretend to be Santa's Helpers and pull
a few toys in a wagon from one spot to another
*Sit
in front of a bean bag or block, then using your feet, bend your knees and push
the bean bag/block forward for a distance. Or, get on your hands and knees
with the bean bag/block behind you and push it backwards with your feet for a
distance. Or, stand up and push the bean bag/block forward using a foot
(toes, side of foot, heel, etc). How can you push the bean bag/block with
your arms? With your hands?
*Have
children demonstrate pushing versus pulling with their hands.
*How
could you pull something with the top of your foot? With your heel?
(Elastic bands attached to something stationary is fun for these type of activities).
Roll
Our Bodies
Lecture Notes and Random
Activities:
*Help
children do back somersaults (begin in a squatting position, roll back and kick
feet overhead ending up in a kneeling position)
*Do
rolling sit-ups (lie on your back, raise your feet toward your head then place
them down forcefully ending up in sitting position).
*Show
children a picture of a log in the forest then let them show you how they think
it might roll.
*If you
were a star, could you roll? Why/why not?
*Be
a jellybean. How would you roll? (Observe a real jellybean
rolling first.)
What
a truly terrific idea from Felicia Bush, Tech Tikes Preschool. It
combines the joy of reading books with gross motor and creative drama:
At Circle Time, we read "There Were Ten in the Bed" by Karen Young.
Before we begin, we have the children lie down in a row on our circle time mat.
Then, as we read each page, one child at a time "rolls" off the bed.
They really enjoy acting out this book.
From
Dee
Cardenas, Starbright Preschool, Austin, Texas:
Rolling: I found a sturdy packing tube about 4' long. It's so strong
the children can sit on it and "roll" it back and forth.
Extension
from Stormie: When I read Dee's great idea above, it occurred to me that with
a tube like this, children could roll the tube and then become pretend "tubes"
themselves and try to roll in the same manner.
Share your ideas too.
E-mail me at stormie@preschoolbystormie.com
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