Movement Matters!
A quick and easy way to add some physical movement to the day,
so our brains can learn AND play!!!
1. MUSICAL HULA HOOPS RULES:
RULES: Lay 8-10 hula hoops on the floor around the room. Be sure the space is safe. Prepare your fun or educational music (below).
When the music is playing, participants must stay OUT of the hoops and dance, hop, move their bodies. No hovering over a hoop. When the music stops, get in a hoop with self control and freeze. After a few warm up rounds, play with outs! Additional RULES: If you go in the hoops during the music, you're out. If you are the last one IN a hoop, the ref will call your name and you are out (teacher is the referee). Come sit out and watch. You must not go in the SAME hoop 2x in a row. Alternate or switch hoops at each pause. No MORE than FOUR people per hoop, or the entire hoop is out! And last rule, DON'T argue with the ref, or tell someone else they are out, or YOU will be out. As you eliminate players, begin to remove hoops until you are down to only 1 hoop and very few people. You can play until you have a winner, or start again when you get to 5 hoops etc.
PUSH THE BROWN BUTTONS BELOW FOR MUSIC OPTIONS FOR THE GAME.
"Why does this work? Simply put, the brain needs glycogen to function.
When you move, your body pumps blood to the brain, keeping the brain healthy and happy." Mariah Rankine-Landers
When you move, your body pumps blood to the brain, keeping the brain healthy and happy." Mariah Rankine-Landers
Dr. Kenneth Wesson, Educational Consultant: Neuroscience, says, “Young, developing brains benefit most from a rich variety of one-on-one emotional, verbal, visual, physical and tactile engagements.” (2011) When we use movement to help students understand content, we are helping them encode information to be stored in their brains.
"Play and movement give kids the chance to release stress and take breaks from the rigor of schoolwork. While it’s important for children to learn how to work while sitting still, we also need to realize when our bodies are telling us to take a break—even as adults." - Marwa Abdelbary
"Play and movement give kids the chance to release stress and take breaks from the rigor of schoolwork. While it’s important for children to learn how to work while sitting still, we also need to realize when our bodies are telling us to take a break—even as adults." - Marwa Abdelbary
What does current research say about
movement and learning anyways?
MUSICAL HULA HOOPS!
a. Silly brain break (review team/individual self control, etc.)
Class can play outs, or just freeze in a hoop when the music stops.
b. Review Content
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2. Using Music for Movement: Listening & Sensing
MOVING With NUMBERS:
a. Stand around the PERIMETER of the hula hoop (no more than 4 people)
Step IN the HOOP on beat 1, stay at HOME base hoop, at first.
EXTENSION: Travel to a new hoop by beat 1, step in new hoop each time
3. DALCROZE Eurhythmics (K-adult ability)
a. What's the Number?
DIRECTIONS: Students walk in free form around the room stepping to the beat and counting to eight. Once a steady pulse is kept, don't count numbers out loud anymore. Teacher or leader assigns which numbers children will clap.
ADVANCED VERSION: Send one student OUT of the room as the clap numbers are given. Once the group is steady and consistent, bring the student back in to try and guess which numbers are being clapped.
b. Advanced Listening and Improvisation to Music with my BODY:
4. MOVEMENT & PROPS!
PICK YOUR PROP!
Provide bean bags, tennis balls, bouncy balls, scarves, parachutes oh MY!
Student choice for 1st item, trade 2-3 times during the song
*If they need to trade, raise a hand! Be a problem solver.
5. DANCING RIBBONS! & MUSICAL FORM (patterns)
HINT: USE FULL ARM FOR MOVEMENT (way less knots) . Purchase info: HERE
A : Up, down, R L R . B : Swoop, Swoop, two big circle . C : Freestyle Choices!
6. MOVEMENT BASED BOOKS:
Emily Arrow: I am Yoga
Emily Arrow: Water is Water
Emily Arrow: Be a Friend
7. MOVING TO CLASSICAL MUSIC:
John Feierabend MOVE IT:
Students moving bodies to match music,
Use teacher or student leaders
MOVE -IT DVD can be purchased from GIA MUSIC HERE
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A Section: 16 steps Clockwise, 16 steps CCW
B Section: alternate leaders to create a 2x2 repeating pattern
B Section: alternate leaders to create a 2x2 repeating pattern