WEEK 2 SESSION

FOCUS EQUIPMENT ACTIVITY

Warm up, motor planning WARM-UP: Follow the leader

- Children follow the researcher and copy exactly what she does - Run, walk, gallop, shuffle, skip, left and right

Proprioception, upper body strength

ACTIVITY 1: Animal walks

- The researcher demonstrates the different animal walks and the children copy

- Bear walk, crab walk, frog jumps, caterpillar walk

106 Proprioception, upper body

strength

Hula hoops (hoops) ACTIVITY 2: Rabbit hops

- Place the hoops on the ground

- Demonstrate the rabbit hop into each hoop, hands first, then the feet follow, let the children try

Directionality, motor planning

Small cones Hula hoop (hoop) Beacons

Large cone

ACTIVITY 3: Obstacle course

- Place 6 cones out in a line, place a hoop on a stand, place 5 beacons in a line, and 6m away a large cone

- The children zig-zag through and around each cone, they climb through the hoop, hop with two feet over each beacon, run to the large cone and run around it and sprint back to the beginning

Laterality, VMI Bubbles ACTIVITY 4: Bubble fun

- Children show you their right hand, and place the left hand behind their back, “stuck” there

- The researcher blows bubbles and they can only catch and pop the bubbles with their right and, change hands to only using their left hand

107

Proprioception, laterality COOL DOWN: Angels in the snow

- Children lie on their backs and move their arms and legs making a snow angel shape on the floor

- They must only move their arms, then only their legs

- Ask them to move just their right arm and leg, then just their left arm and leg

WEEK 2 SESSION 2

FOCUS EQUIPMENT ACTIVITY

Warm up, upper body

strength and coordination WARM UP: Going to the beach

- Sit in a circle, and tell the children a story about going to the beach, perform all the actions

- Start by sleeping, then jump up and run to the kitchen and eat breakfast, then run to brush teeth, then run to car, then drive, etc., get to the beach and then eventually swim…then go back home

VMI Small cones

Small sponge ball

ACTIVITY 1: Kill the cockroach

- Place 5 cones out in a row 1.5 m away from the children

- The children take turns and roll the ball to the row of cockroaches an try and hit the cone and ‘kill’ the cockroach

VMI, upper body Sponge balls ACTIVITY 2: Throw and catch

108 coordination

- The children get into pairs with a ball for each pair, they stand opposite each other and throw and catch the ball

- Progress to bouncing the ball in the middle and catching

VMI, directionality Beanbags 2 baskets

ACTVITY 3: Beanbag toss

- Place two baskets in front of the children 1m away, one basket on the left side and one on the right, and a space in between them

- They take turns throwing the beanbags into the baskets on the researcher’s command regarding which side they must throw to, left or right, or in the middle

Visual perception Printed pictures COOL DOWN: Spot the difference

- Print pictures for the children, for example: showing 4 cats, and one looking a different way to the other, or the picture being upside down - Ask which picture is different

- Ask why they say it is different

109 WEEK 3 SESSION 1

FOCUS EQUIPMENT ACTIVITY

Warm up, motor coordination WARM UP: Going on a picnic

- All sit in a circle and tell the children a story about going on a picnic - Perform all the actions; eat breakfast, brush teeth, get into car and drive car

VMI, upper body coordination

Small cones Beanbags

ACTIVITY 1: Ice cream cones

- Children pair up, and stand opposite each other, one holds a small cone upside down, to resemble an ice cream cone

- The other child has 3 beanbags that are the ice cream. They try and throw the beanbag into the cone, and their partner holding the cone can move to catch the beanbags if necessary

VMI, upper body coordination

Hula hoops (hoops) Sponge balls

ACTIVITY 2: Bounce and catch

- Children stay in their pairs, now with a hoop between them on the floor, and one holding a sponge ball

110

- The children must bounce the ball into the hoop and to their partner, who tries to catch it and they repeat

VMI 3 sets of colored

beacons

ACTIVITY 3: Bop the beacon

- Set out 3 sets of beacons on the floor, a white beacon, red, yellow and blue beacon all on the floor in a row

- Half the children sit quietly and watch while the other half each get a spot in front of a set of beacons

- They sit in front of the beacon and on the researcher’s command they hit the correct coloured beacon as instructed by the teacher

- After several tries, the children swop over and the others get a chance

Proprioception COOL DOWN: Angels in the snow

- The children lie on their backs

- The researcher stands against a wall in front of them so that they can all see the demonstration and copy

- The researcher and children move their arms first up and down along the floor in a snow angel movement

- They move their legs in a snow angel movement

111

- They try moving both arms and legs, slowly and accurately

WEEK 3