Curriculum Work

I am working with 5-6 year olds at Lincoln elementary. For my curriculum I did movement activities for 40 minutes once a week with the entire class for the month of January. I thought that this would be a good way let the kids be active at this time a year when they are inside most of the time and less active.So each week I planned a warm up activity and a more active activity such as a game. Some of the activities were:

Warm Up

Animal Yoga - Dog, cat, mouse, flamingo, camel, mule, etc.

Dancing to a song called animal action-Dancing to imitate different animals

Freeze Dance -Music plays and children dance until the music stops and they all freeze

Brain Dance -movement that incorporates essential needs of the brain in children 0-8, such as breath, tactile, vestibular, cross-lateral, core-distal,body-sides, upper/lower, head-tail.

 

Games

Mr./Mrs. Fox- one child is the fox and all the other children call out Mr.Fox, what time is it. The fox calls out a number and the children take that many steps toward the fox. When the fox calls midnight all the children run back to their starting place while the fox chases and tries to tag one of them.

stuck in the web, yoga version- one child is the spider and they try to tag the other children. When a child is tagged they must lay on the ground and either build a bridge or do dog pose and have another child climb underneath them to be free from the web.