What a fun first week we had in gym! I am a person of routine, so it's important to me to always follow the same routine in gym. Even though the weather was beautiful, we still had to have our structured time in gym.
At the beginning of the year, we talk a lot about safety and how to stay safe in the gym. As individual classes they come up with their own rules. This year rules included; don't leave the gym, don't push/hit/kick anyone, don't pick your nose, and my favorite - you can throw a ball, but don't throw another kid.
We talk about using our eyes to stay safe by looking out for our friends. We played a fun game of "bumper cars" where the kids each got a hula-hoop, which was their "car" and we drove from one end of the gym to the other without "crashing". We'll keep working on this, as pretty soon we'll just run from one end to the other and I'm hoping they'll remember some of the "spacing" guidelines.
We also talked about our ears keeping us safe - how it's important to listen to the teacher and when they say "freeze" we need to keep our bodies and our mouths still. To practice this we played freeze dance, which is always a fun way to get the wiggles out. It's still a work in progress, as some classes are better "freezers" than others, but we work on this one A LOT.
I introduced our "preschool road" where we can run and ride bikes. Basically the road is achieved by setting cones up around the perimeter of the gym giving kids room to roam without having bikes coming through the center of the gym where a variety of PE manipulatives are set up. And we worked on walking feet, and running feet - one funny thing about preschoolers, if I ask them to walk all bets are off, but if I asked them to have walking feet...boom they walk.
But since we had such amazing weather, we didn't spend too much time indoors, and we were able to enjoy our fun playground.
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