Prek Week 14 Directions: Forward

PreK Week 14 Directions: Forward PowerPoint

GRADE

TOPIC

UNIT

PreK

Forward Direction with Levels & Locomotor traveling review.

Movement

Equipment Needed

Control Cones, Safety Rules Poster, Stretching Station Cards, PowerPoint: Week 14 -Directions/Forward, Hoops, Levels Hunt Cards, Mats

Content Standard Benchmarks or Common Core Standards

Learning Goals, Objectives, Expected Outcomes

Psychomotor

  1. travel at least three different ways in a Forward direction.
  2. actively participates in the lesson activities and exercises.
  3. gain strength and flexibility through movement and stretching exercises.
  4. move and work safely among other children.

Cognitive

  1. verbally identify the body parts on the front of the body.
  2. Verbally describe the ways they traveled forward

Affective

  1. Have Fun
  2. play cooperatively with classmates while moving in the boundaries.

ACTIVITY

PROCEDURE AND TRANSITIONS WITH MODIFICATIONS AND OR ACCOMMODATIONS

SETUP DESCRIPTION OR DIAGRAM
Entrance Routine
 Welcome, stand on a mat. Mats already spread out inside the boundaries with level cards underneath.
Part 1
Warm-up/Review
 Safety

Review the three levels and show the children an example of each card that represents a level.

Levels Hunt

Look under your mat to see which level to use when you travel to the next mat.  As soon as you get to the new mat, look underneath to see the new level to use for traveling!  Keep going until the music stops.  See if you can get to all the mats before the end of the song!

 Differentiation Strategies:

Use a travel/stop song to reinforce freezing skills.  Where ever the children are when the music stops, is where they will freeze.  When the music begins again, they will continue on from where they left off.  Remind them to remember the level they are in so that they can continue in that level when the music begins again.
Transition
 Stay on the mat you finished on.
Part 2

New skill or concept

 Forward

Teaching Tips:

Begin the discussion by talking about the parts of the body that are on the front surface. They are; the face, the chest(pectorals), the stomach (abdominals), the thighs (quadriceps), the knees (patella), shins (tibia) and the toes (phalanges) . Hold the poster up that shows the Front Surface of the body while you discuss the body parts on the front of the body.

“What parts of the body are on the front of your body?”

Allow the children to answer, as they do, point out the part on the poster and have the children point to the part on their own body. (Make up a song to sing while they review the FRONT SIDE ONLY.)

If you use the PowerPoint, 1 click circles the body part to identify and the second click pops up the name.

Stay on your mat and show me how you can make a shape on the front surface of your body.  (show the children some examples, either with the PowerPoint slide or pictures that you can hold up or post.)

Go to a new mat and make another shape on the front surface of your body.  See if you can think of a different shape than the one you just made.

Continue this 3 or 4 more times, giving the children enough time to make the shape, but not too much time so that they get fidgety.

Traveling Forward

“When you travel so the body parts on the front of your body go first, that is called forward or frontwards.  Forward is the way we all naturally face or look because our eyes are on the front, it’s easier to see where we are going!”

“When I say go next, travel around the room so that the front surface of your body is going first. Ready, go”

“When you travel forward, the front of your body always leads you, the body parts on a front of your body should be going first. Can you think of another way of traveling that is forward?” “It’s ok to try someone else’s idea if it’s safe for you.”

Continue practicing ways to travel forward until your satisfied that everyone has a clear understanding of forward and front.

 Assessment Strategies:

Visually assess your students cognitive memory of their body parts as they point to the part on their own body.

Ask the children, as they travel, to name the body parts that are leading them around the space.  The body part(s) should be on the front surface of the body, in order to be traveling forward

Teaching Tips:

Demonstrate forward walking to the children.  As you do, point out that your front surface is leading you around the room, your face, chest, stomach, thighs, knees, shins and toes are going first, and will get to where ever you are going first!

Teaching Tips:

As the students are traveling be sure they are traveling in a forward direction. You can point out the students who are traveling forward as well as the different ways they are traveling forward. While you move through the students, ask them to tell you which direction they are traveling. They are traveling forward.

Teaching Tips:

There are a number of ways that the children can travel forward. Some of them are; walk, run, jump, hop, crawl, slide on their bottom, skip, travel on knees, slide on bell, walk on hands and feet, etc… As your students are traveling be sure to call out the different ways they are traveling. At least five more times, call out freeze and instruct the children to change the way they are traveling forward.
Transition
 Stay on your mat
Part 3

Practice

 Forward Locomotor Moves

Go through each of the locomotor moves, except slide, and practice traveling forward with each one.  If you are using the PowerPoint you will see skip.  I put it in to let them try it, but it’s ok to gallop if you cannot skip!

At the end, let the children pick the locomotor move they would like to do, Forward of course!

Forward Traveling Levels

If time permits, practice traveling forward in each of the three levels.  There is a song in the preschool folder that is specifically for levels traveling.  During this practice, remind the students to travel forward in each level!

 Assessment Strategies:

Ask the children, as they travel, to name the body parts that are leading them around the space.  The body part(s) should be on the front surface of the body, in order to be traveling forward

Visually assess the children’s locomotor traveling.

Visually assess the childrens ability to travel in the three levels, in a forward direction.

Teaching Tips

Point out all the cool ways the children are traveling in a forward direction in each of the three levels.

 
Transition
 Find a mat to stretch on.
Part 4

Stretching & closure

Taking it Home

 Cool Down

Choose 3 stretches to do with the class.

Review

What direction did you travel in today?

What body parts are on the front of your body?

How do you know if you are traveling forward?

Closure

Additional Part 3 Activities

Forward Travel Obstacle Course

Teaching Tips:

If possible, have multiple obstacles in each area set up.  Demonstrate the activities at each part of the course.  Point out the sign that explains how to move through the obstacle.  SAFETY and traveling FORWARD are the most important part of this activity. 

The children will travel forward through 6 different obstacles; Across (4 areas of 5-mats linked together), Through (4 sets of a hoop on a dome or held between two cones), Under (4 areas of a table or two mats that make a tent shape), Around (zig zag cones) IN/OUT (Hoops on the ground) and Over (4 areas of 1 mat on the ground, a wand on the ground or a squiggly rope on the ground). They can all move at the same time, beginning in different parts of the course.  Discuss safety, reminding them not to touch anyone.  All the traveling must be done in the FORWARD direction.

Forward Bean Bag Balance

Choose a body part to balance the bean bag on, travel forward until I yell Freeze.  (Encourage the children to try new body parts until they have tried at least 3 different ways of traveling forward with the bean bag balancing on variety of body parts)

Balance the bean bag & Forward Travel Obstacle Course

This activity should be done last in the progression.  In addition to the children traveling forward through 6 different obstacles, they will also balance a bean bag on a body part.  The body part can be suggested by you or chosen by each child.  Modifications can include choosing a new body part to balance the bean bag when the children come to a new segment of the course. They can all move at the same time, beginning in different parts of the course.  Discuss safety, reminding them not to touch anyone.  Again, during this lesson, all the traveling must be done in the FORWARD direction.

 Toss and Travel

Use either an underhand or overhand throw, travel FORWARD to retrieve the bean bag, stay in own space and balance the bean bag on your knee. (Continue to do this until the children balance the bean bag on all the different body parts on the front surface of the body only.)

Throw the bean bag, choose a new way to travel forward, retrieve the bean bag, throw the bean bag to another open space, and choose a new way to travel forward to get the bean bag.  Keep throwing and traveling until I say stop.