Every class we have a structured outside time. During this time, I have a perceptual motor skills curriculum. These are basically skills that are age appropriate that children can learn to enhance coordination. A few examples of specific skills we worked on this week were catching a ball using hands and not your body and jumping from and landing on 2 feet. Sometimes we teach concepts, like moving across the grass forwards and "in reverse" to help understand the concept of reversible change. Or moving with holding hands, like a liquid; moving all over the grass like a gas, or not moving at all huddled close together like the solid molecules of ice. we also learn group games - like when we played "Octopus, octopus, may we cross your ocean?"
We also have a short free play time. Children may play on the swing set, dig in the sandbox, scooter around the path, pedal around on the big wheels, jump individually on my small trampoline, play with the megablocks, or even write with chalk or play with bubbles.
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