| ACTIVITY | | Body-Part Relationships | |
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| In this activity, the children are going to work with a variety of body parts in relation to other body parts or to the floor. This will require them to think about the sum of their parts and about the space they occupy. |
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 No explanation required.
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1. Stretch a foot far away from you and then bring it back without touching the floor (until it's back in its original position).
2. Put a shoulder (the other shoulder; both shoulders) on the floor.
3. Touch an elbow to a knee; take it as far away from that knee as possible.
4. Ask the children to sit, and then present the following challenges:
• Put an elbow on the floor; take it as far away from the floor as possible.
• Stretch a foot far away from you and then bring it back without touching the floor (until it's back in its original position).
• Put a shoulder (the other shoulder; both shoulders) on the floor.
• Touch an elbow to a knee; take it as far away from that knee as possible.
• Touch an elbow to a foot.
• Can you touch your shoulder to your foot?
• Touch a wrist to an ankle.
• Come up from the floor with your head leading and the rest of your body following.
• Go back down with an elbow leading the way.
• Come up from the floor with an elbow leading.
• Go back down to the floor with your nose leading the way.
• Come back up with your nose leading.
• Go back down with your chest leading.
• Come back up with your chin leading. |
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| A game called Traveling Body Parts will give the children a better idea of the range of their personal space. Ask them to perform the following tasks while standing:
• Make one hand travel far away from the other one.
• Leaving the first hand (the one that traveled) where it is, bring the other hand to meet it.
• Make the first hand travel far away from the other one, but in a different direction.
• Make one elbow travel far away from the other one.
• Leaving the first elbow where it is, bring the other elbow to meet it.
• Make the first elbow travel far away again, but in a different direction.
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