Moving Skills Includes Marching To Make a HUGE Difference
In Balance and Brain Connections
while Developing Preschool Learning
Skill Development Task FIVE:
Marching KNEES Up High!...Learning New Moving Skills
STEP BY STEP PROGRESSIONS
To work moving skills during kids play try this:
YOU can make a big difference in your youngster's body control during their play.
In a calm voice, ASK you child to:
- Use high knee lifting action to get lots of motion.
- Start in the feet side-by-side position.
- Keep body TALL.
- Begin to move across the practice pathway.
- Remember to keep the toes pointing forward forward as the child moves.
- Swing the arms as the marching moves the action forward.
- Helper Hint: You can clap a steady beat or play some peppy music.
- Try marching backwards.
- As the rhythm of the movement smooths out, the arms SWING freely, front to back, skimming the sides of the body.
TASK OBJECTIVE: DEVELOPING RHYTHM By moving muscles, stimulating nerves, this exercise makes the body coordination improve by emphasizing a beat in the feet. Care in observing the work is important.
Teaching Hints for Turning Kids Play into Build Brain Time
- The senses will connect the muscles to the brain as the child strives to move well.
- Make sure that the practice times for this task are SHORT and happy!
- Check to make certain that that each single arm is moving in opposition to the lifted leg.
- Ask other children to join in a parade.
- Marching is a great way to move!
Variations on this exercise would be changes in speed: quick, slow. Preschool learning is based on rhythms and group work. Moving skills must be encouraged during kids play to make sure that preschool learning comes from fun times.
