Exercise Breaks

How to play

This game requires children to listen to the teacher and follow commands while using their imaginations about how to move their body. The idea of the game is for children to think about how they can move their body into different sizes and shapes. Instruct children to do the following:

• Be as tall as you can!
• Be as short as you can!
• Be as wide as you can!
• Be as round as you can!
• Be as flat as you can!
• Be as high as you can!
• Be as low as you can!
• Be as bumpy as you can!
• Be as small as you can!
• Be as big as you can!

More Challenging

Have children work with partners and ask one partner to stand taller than the other. Ask “Who is taller?” “Who is shorter?”

Enrichment

Talk about animals and how they have different sizes, shapes and colors. For example, is a giraffe tall or short? Is a mouse big or little, etc? Use pictures of animals as a visual aid, and ask children to sort pictures by size, color, shape, etc. Discuss how animals are different or similar.

Attention Teachers!

Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.

Teacher’s Weekly Log Form

Attention Teachers!

Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.

Teacher’s Weekly Log Form