Language Arts
1. Alphabet – Lay out a letter
a. March/walk/run/hop around the alphabet; stop; pick up letter and identify.
b. Make shape of letter with body.
c. Make shape of letter with partner.
d. Make shape of letter with rope and then walk around shape.
2. Same as above but work with whole words
a. Student guesses which word partner is “acting out”.
3. Reading and Walking Exercises
a. One student reads a sentence while other students walk.
b. When student stops reading, other students stop walking.
c. Change readers.
4. Story Exercise
a. Introduction – walking
b. Body – running and axial movements (twist, bend, stretch)
c. Conclusion – skipping
5. Story Interpretation
a. Play a story (tape, record, such as Little Red Riding Hood, etc.). Children interpret it with movement.
b. Do the Bunny Hop after reading/discussing Peter Rabbit.
6. Vocabulary – partners; one person acts out the vocabulary word and partner guesses the word and spells it correctly.
7. Children write own stories; must include locomotor elements such as hop, walk, run and stability elements such as twist, turn, make a shape, change levels, etc.
8. Act out prepositions.
9. Create symbols for nouns, verbs, etc. The teacher says any word and the children move to the symbol. Children can work in groups of 2 or 3.
10. Leader (child/teacher) gives a command such as “put right hand on the chair.”
Children follow the directions.
11. Colors and Locomotors. Children do locomotors when teacher calls out “specific” color.
Work on directions, pathways, range, levels and different colors – shirt, shoes, hair, eyes, etc.
12. Story Relay. Two or more teams. First person runs to board and starts the story (one word or sentences) and then tags the next member of the relay team who continues the story. Vary locomotors.
13. Create a pattern and a rhyme to go with it.
14. Prepositional Adventure. Divide the children into three groups by any method of color separation (i.e., hair color, eye color, or pin a color on each child). Once this grouping is completed, then go outside to the playground. Have the first group, which may be yellow, go “under” three pieces of playground equipment. At the same time, have the second group, which may be blue, go “over” three pieces of equipment. The third group, which may be green, will be instructed to go “around” three pieces of equipment. When they have completed their activities, they will run back to the starting point. Repeat the activity using different prepositions for each color group. Prepositions such as over, under, between, above, below, around, and across may be used for this game.
15. Bowling. Set up cones with letters on them. Have children roll a small ball toward the cones. See how many words you can make out of the cones you knocked down. For kindergarten, children can identify letters and some sight words.
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1. Alphabet – Lay out a letter
a. March/walk/run/hop around the alphabet; stop; pick up letter and identify.
b. Make shape of letter with body.
c. Make shape of letter with partner.
d. Make shape of letter with rope and then walk around shape.
2. Same as above but work with whole words
a. Student guesses which word partner is “acting out”.
3. Reading and Walking Exercises
a. One student reads a sentence while other students walk.
b. When student stops reading, other students stop walking.
c. Change readers.
4. Story Exercise
a. Introduction – walking
b. Body – running and axial movements (twist, bend, stretch)
c. Conclusion – skipping
5. Story Interpretation
a. Play a story (tape, record, such as Little Red Riding Hood, etc.). Children interpret it with movement.
b. Do the Bunny Hop after reading/discussing Peter Rabbit.
6. Vocabulary – partners; one person acts out the vocabulary word and partner guesses the word and spells it correctly.
7. Children write own stories; must include locomotor elements such as hop, walk, run and stability elements such as twist, turn, make a shape, change levels, etc.
8. Act out prepositions.
9. Create symbols for nouns, verbs, etc. The teacher says any word and the children move to the symbol. Children can work in groups of 2 or 3.
10. Leader (child/teacher) gives a command such as “put right hand on the chair.”
Children follow the directions.
11. Colors and Locomotors. Children do locomotors when teacher calls out “specific” color.
Work on directions, pathways, range, levels and different colors – shirt, shoes, hair, eyes, etc.
12. Story Relay. Two or more teams. First person runs to board and starts the story (one word or sentences) and then tags the next member of the relay team who continues the story. Vary locomotors.
13. Create a pattern and a rhyme to go with it.
14. Prepositional Adventure. Divide the children into three groups by any method of color separation (i.e., hair color, eye color, or pin a color on each child). Once this grouping is completed, then go outside to the playground. Have the first group, which may be yellow, go “under” three pieces of playground equipment. At the same time, have the second group, which may be blue, go “over” three pieces of equipment. The third group, which may be green, will be instructed to go “around” three pieces of equipment. When they have completed their activities, they will run back to the starting point. Repeat the activity using different prepositions for each color group. Prepositions such as over, under, between, above, below, around, and across may be used for this game.
15. Bowling. Set up cones with letters on them. Have children roll a small ball toward the cones. See how many words you can make out of the cones you knocked down. For kindergarten, children can identify letters and some sight words.
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