gross motor
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Freebie Friday: Movement Charts
Happy Friday, we made it through the first week back to real life! The one thing that I love about January is that after having jam-packed weekend throughout November and December, my weekends finally feel like they belong to me again. I am looking forward to getting a lot done around the house this weekend, because I’ll finally have the time. Earlier this week I gave you some ideas for indoor movement games, today’s freebie goes with this list perfectly! The free Movement Chart is from Chanda at Pink Oatmeal, the chart is meant to help you track your students’ movement activities, to make sure that they are participating in movement…
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Tape maze!
Oh. My. Goodness. My students absolutely loved this new game, and it is so easy that we may just make it part of our regular rotation. All you have to do is tear long pieces of masking tape and place them at varying levels across a hallway (if you don’t have a hallway I’m sure that you could set up some chairs that would work too). Then the children have to get through the tape without getting stuck to it. My kiddos pretended to be spies, they didn’t want to get caught by the “laser tape.” They rolled underneath some strips, tiptoed over others, and stretched to get over some…
