The Best Movement and Action Songs

 

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Stand Up, Sit Down Movement Song

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Fun Tambourine Songs for Pre-K and Kindergarten

 

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Winter Movement and Music Activities for Children

 

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The Turkey Trot

 

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From 21st Century Teachers - Education for All v2.0

From 21st Century Teachers - Education for All v2.0

A perfect activity for your kids 😍
Color Recognition ✔
Fine Motor Coordination ✔
Gross Motor Coordination ✔

Cognitive Development ✔

Divide the class into 2 groups.
They can only take 1 toilet paper roll at a time to place on a construction paper square.
Excellent Pre-Kinder activity, especially during bad weather days.

Bal-A-Vis-X

Rhythmic Balance / Auditory / Vision eXercises for brain and brain/body integration.

This looks amazing! Check out the website here, and the video here!

Kids Yoga

Follow the Line

Let them draw their own lines. A great way to work on gross motor movement.

Life-size Game Teaches Kindergarten Students Recycling

The non-traditional tokens were bags of recyclable materials.

Art teacher Kecia Garcia, who is also head of the school’s recycling program, created a game similar to Monopoly called Recycle Rally to celebrate its completion of the PepsiCo Recycle Rally.

The life-size board game, created with paint and chalk that wrapped around the school’s courtyard, had students starting on “GO” with the opportunities to draw chance and treasure box cards.

The PepsiCo Recycle Rally is a free nationwide program that directly benefits K-12 schools and students by providing valuable incentives and resources to help make recycling easy, fun and rewarding.

Read more about it here.

Indoors Bad Weather Activity - Hoops!

Indoor Recess - Bad Weather Activity #2

This one is great if you have limited space to put the children in a big circle.

Remember the game "Freeze"? Where you play music, then stop it, and the children have to "freeze" where they are? No music is required for this game! And the kiddos don't have to be in a circle!

All they have to remember is:
When You Clap Once, It Means GO
When You Clap Twice, It Means Stop

Tell them to walk around the room. Alternate your claps, sometimes adding two GO claps together, or two STOP signals back-to-back to trick them. Because you're also building listening skills and boosting brain work!

A good 3-5 minutes of this not only gets their wiggles out, but also gives them a much needed brain break. And there's no equipment required!

Patterning With Kinesthetic Movement

Another way to work on learning patterning is by repetition using movement.

Put your kids in a circle, either sitting or standing. Give them a pattern to repeat. Ex: AB

You start off by saying A, then hand the ball to the child next to you, who says B. They hand it over to the next child, who repeats A, and so on until you've gone all the way around the circle.

You can start over by making the ball go in the opposite direction, which challenges the child's mind to figure out what their letter is going to be.

Later on, you can increase the complexity of this lesson by giving another pattern, such as AAB and so forth once the class is ready to learn it.

Jump Shout! Learning Our Letters

The group I have this year are a challenge. Most of them don't know their letter names, much less letter sounds, so I have to find ways to keep the letter front and center until they learn it. Constant repetition is the key, and so we do the Jump Shout!

I put duct tape on the floor in the shape of the letter. (This one is an F.) The letter is DIRECTLY INSIDE THE DOOR. To enter the room, they have to jump onto the letter and shout its name (or sound, depending on which one I tell them to say.) They love it! In fact, some sneak back into the line to do it again.

Considering we leave and re-enter the room an average of SIX times a day, that's a lot of repetition!