Move and Learn

On Tuesday, March 6 we will:

• Warm up our bodies by "hopping the alphabet."
• Play HalfPint Skillastics. This activity allows children the opportunity to explore a variety of movements, while practicing other skills such as color and shape recognition, counting, turn taking, coordination, and spatial awareness.

Ideas for home:

• Play "Musical Hugs:" similar to freeze dance, dance to music and when the music stops, everyone hugs!! This is a great way to reconnect when your having "one of those days!!"
• Play "You Little Rascals!" My daughter invented this game and we play it daily! Children pretend to be crazy dogs and the adult is the dog catcher. The dog catcher puts the dogs in the pound (usually the couch, a corner of the room, tent...) and tell the dogs to stay there. The dogs then "escape" and the dog catcher chases them saying "You little Rascals, get back in the pound!!" Catch them and put them back in the pound. Then do it again. And again. And again. And again. :)
• I think my daughter loves this game because it allows her to "break the rules" (escaping from the pound) in a fun and playful way.

Take the time to enter your child's world and "find ways for children to tell their stories, paint their own pictures, construct their own worlds, act out their own scenarios, and keep their own dreams alive." Lawrence Cohen, Playful Parenting