10/28: Teaching, Yoga for Kids

 Playing a character helps young students stay engaged and actually enjoy the activity. They see everything as playing or a game.

Kindergarten, Vol. 3 Dance

Component: Movement skills and underlying principles

Objectives: 1 Recognizes ways of moving various body parts

2 Explores aspect of shape with the body

3 Demonstrates moving in personal space, using large and small kinesphere

4 Explores nonlocomotor skills: bending, stretching, twisting, arching, turning, falling

Competency: The student can solve locomotor and non-locomotor movement problems (walk slowly, run quickly, stop) by creating a short thematic interpretation that will demonstrate these movements

Materials: speaker and music, colorful stars

Activity: Learning about straddle stretch and “making a pizza”