Activity

Purpose

The purpose of this lesson is for children to be active. Preschool children should accumulate at least 60 minutes of structured physical activity every day and 60 minutes of unstructured physical activity every day.

Equipment Required

Before the Lesson

Ensure there is enough space for children to move as they please.

Learning Objective

For children to accumulate at least 5–10 minutes of structured physical activity.

Enrichment

  • Read Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae, and have children try out the moves described in the book.
  • For a field trip, consider a children’s dance show.

Activity

How to Play

Instruct children to spread out through the movement space so that they can’t reach anyone else. Tell children that when the music is playing, they are free to move around as they please. When the music stops, they must “freeze” or stop what they are doing, stay in place, and wait for the music to start again. You can designate different locomotor movements (skipping, hopping, walking, crawling, etc) for children to practice when music is playing.

Attention Teachers!

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

Weekly Log

Attention Teachers!

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