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Objectives:

• Space / Relationship Awareness
• Moving On Different Paths
• Use Of Personal / General Space
• Relating To People And Objects

How to Play: 

• Teacher or child volunteer to pick any color
• The other children must find as many objects around the room that match this color

Materials:

• Nil

Other Information:

Teachers to vary and modify accordingly e.g. Option for activity to be done while staying seated, select items from around the classroom or at a certain corner. Teachers can incorporate movement skills e.g. crawling, tiptoeing while children are doing the activity

Objectives:

• Twisting
• Stretching
• Twisting
• Curling

How to Play: 

• Children to imagine that they are standing in front of an enormous pot filled with caramel
• Stretch both their arms out and up and pretend to take hold of a ‘giant stirrer’
• Swing down both their arms in front of them to plunge it to the bottom of the pot
• Slowly begin to stir the pot in a clockwise direction, moving their hands, wrist and shoulders
• Stir in the opposite direction

Materials:

• Nil

Other Information:

Teachers to vary and modify accordingly e.g. Incorporate storylines e.g. Santa elves bending down to make soup, Option to stir fast or slow

Objectives:

• Locomotor, Object Control, Stability Skills
• Underarm Throw
• Catching
• Jumping
• Balancing

How to Play: 

• Toss the ball to a child who will toss the ball back to the teacher. The child will have to act out his/her animal of choice.
• The other children will have to mimic the movement and try to guess the animal
• The first child to guess the correct answer will take over
• Repeat steps 1-3

Materials:

• Ball

Other Information:

Teachers to vary and modify accordingly e.g. Use other objects to toss/catch such as beanbags or crushed paper balls.

Objectives:

• Stretching
• Use Of Personal / General Space
• Relating Parts Of The Body

How to Play: 

• Children to touch their left ears with their right hands and, at the same time, touch their noses with their left hands.
• Switch hands and touch their right ears with their left hands and their noses with their right hand!

Materials:

• Nil

Other Information:

Teachers to vary and modify accordingly e.g. Make use of other body parts e.g. Children to put one hand on their tummies, the other on their backs. Switch hands. Teachers to incorporate other movements such as jumping

Objectives:

• Short movement activities in between lessons

How to Play:

• Children will take turns being “Simon” who will give directions for children to perform a physical action starting with “Simon says…”If the child leaves out “Simon says” before giving directions, anyone who performed the activity will be out of the game!

Objectives:

• Short movement activities in between lessons

How to Play:

• Show children simple freeze actions which they can do. Play music and when the music stops, children should stop moving and show the freeze actions.

Objectives:

• Short movement activities in between lessons

How to Play:

• Say out a number and invite children to get into the groups based on the number called out.

Objectives:

• Short movement activities in between lessons

How to Play:

• Invite one child to be the leader. The leader will imitate an animal movement to move around while the other children will follow.

Objectives:

• Short movement activities in between lessons

How to Play:

• Invite one child to catch a ball before answering a question and throw the ball to another child after they are done.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC educator will say "Blow, wind, blow".
• The preschoolers will ask "Blow, what?"
• The EC educator will reply "Blow all those wearing glasses."
• The preschoolers who are wearing glasses will need to exchange seats.
• The EC educator will then repeat for other characteristics of the preschoolers.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC educator will start the game by saying, “Let’s pop those popcorns.”. Preschoolers will then take turns to stand as they say “Pop!”
• Preschoolers will need to say "Pop!" one at a time.
• If two or more children say "Pop!" at the same time, the game starts over.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers will repeat each line after the EC educator use different speaking styles. They can change the lyrics to fit the styles.

The lyrics are as follows:

I said a Boom ChickaBoom
I said a Boom ChickaBoom
I said a BoomChickaRockaChickaRockaChickaBoom
Uh uh
Oh yeah
One more time ______ style.

Janitor Style:

I said a Broom Sweep-a Broom
I said a Broom Sweep-a Broom
I said a Broom Sweep-a Mop-a Sweep-a Mop-a Sweep-a Broom

Barnyard Style:

I said a Moo Chick-a Moo
I said a Moo Chick-a Moo
I said a Moo Chick-a watch your step,
don't track it in the room.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC educator will appoint a preschooler to be the leader. The leader will then do an action and the other preschoolers will follow.

Materials Needed:

• Picture Cards of Animals (Optional)
• Upbeat Music

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers will roll both dice and look at the action they need to carry out and the number of times to perform (I.e. Jump 2 times).

Materials Needed:

• 2 Jumbo Dice (Numbers & Actions)

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers will start counting but instead of saying a certain number, they will need to do an action instead.

For example:

Clapping on even numbers
(i.e. 1, clap, 3, clap, 5)

Jumping to multiples of 5
(i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, jump, 6, 7, 8, 9, jump)

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC educator will say "Act like a ballet dancer". The preschoolers will carry out the action that fits the act. (i.e. Balance on tip toe, twirling)
• Repeat step 1 with another act. Preschoolers can also try creating the sentence as well.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC educator will get the preschoolers to rub their heads. Then, add on a pat to their belly.
• After a few rubs and pats, the EC educator will ask the preschoolers to pat their heads and rub their belly.
• Repeat steps 1 - 2.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers and EC educators will take turns saying the name of a shape. Everyone will use their index finger/scarves/ribbon sticks to draw the shape in the air.

Materials Needed:

• Scarves or Ribbon sticks (Optional)

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC Educator will sing a song that mentions parts of the body. Preschooler will listen and touch the body parts according to the lyrics.

Materials Needed:

• EC Educators can complement this activity with this song here.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers are encouraged to plan and discuss different types of body movement actions as a class and do it throughout the 10 days challenge.

Materials Needed:

• Paper
• Pencil/ Markers
• Colour Pencils

Other information:

EC educators can consider

• Creating the template (10 template table)
• Encouraging the preschoolers to draw the actions. (i.e. For the hopping action, preschoolers may draw a bunny hopping)

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers will follow the EC educator's yoga poses and then take turns to think of a yoga pose for everyone to try.

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• Preschoolers will take turns to be the spy and will say “I spy ____”. The other preschoolers will point towards the mentioned object. (i.e. “I spy something rectangle/books/ window/ tables etc)

Objectives:

• To get preschoolers active and moving.

How to Play:

• The EC educator will ask the preschoolers to pretend they are beans.
• The EC educator will say "Stretch like a long bean." and the preschoolers will stretch their hands up high to touch the sky.
• The EC educator will say "Curl like a pea." and the preschoolers will curl accordingly.
• The EC educator will then repeat for other beans.