Try these EIGHT Basic Locomotor Skills!
These COOL Moves Will Exercise Kids' Bodies and Kids' Brains
LEARN how to teach the 8 locomotor steps:
- walk
- jump
- hop
- slide
- gallop
- leap
- run
- skip
The basic locomotor skills develop from the desire to move and the desire to explore. Little People of Action ~ your children ~ are eager to explore their environment.
Creative movements develop from variations on the fundamentals of movement. One slide will be added to the first step of walking. Then in exploration of the idea of repetition: two steps will become a series of rapid steps that develop a rhythm the
feels good!
Teaching Ideas To Help You Teach The Basic Locomotor Skills
Select a safe place to serve as a practice area. Over time try to make this spot your teaching arena.
Establish a START spot in the center of this space.
Also determine a practice pathway that will be used again and again as a space to move safely and make sure that your young student can clearly see a START SPOT and a FINISH SPOT.
Teaching Hints to Get Play Times To Grow Kids' Brains and Kids' Bodies
- A. Teacher or HELPER gives the verbal cue.
- B. CHILD give self-talk while moving.
- C. Use FREEZE as a verbal cue during the movement.
