MOVING Class Outside!

We took full advantage of the spring like weather this morning and spent a good portion of our time outdoors.

My youngest is working on balance as she is growing so quickly that she’s become a bit clumsy! Hopping up and down the walkway alternating legs is a perfect way not only to work on balance and stability, but overall mobility as well as strengthening of the core.

Add a little verse and you’ve get a full body, mind and soul activity! My daughter wasn’t saying a verse, but this is a great one for hopping.

Trippity, trippity light and neat
Hark to the putter of dancing feet!
Trippity trippity against the pane
Fairies a-frolicking out in the rain!

My son decided to pick up the jumping rope and was happily shocked he could still skip! Skipping is another great activity for verses and this is a fun one for beginners.

Jump, jump, jump a rope,
Merrily in the spring.
Hop, hop on each foot,
As fast as you can sing.

Don’t think that I wasn’t in on all this fun! Hopping and skipping are great activities for all ages!

After all our hopping about we started working on some linear measurement. For this block I created a container story about a king who needs a new table. In the story, all the kings helpers struggled to make a table and legs the right size. All the legs were tall or short and one end of the table was wider than the other. What were they going to do?

After the story we used our bodies to measure a table for the king. We decided that the table should be 12 cubits long and 5 cubits wide and then used our bodies to measure it out. And before we knew it, we had a table just as wonky as the king’s helpers! What were we going to do??

They soon saw that their body parts were different lengths and decided that one would measure the long sides and the other would measure the short sides. We used sidewalk chalk to draw the different table tops and then spent some time decorating our walk way with some reminders of spring to come.