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Ask children to travel slowly along the ground, stretching very slowly.

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Ask children to walk around room using tiny steps.

Children should gradually become slower and slower until they stop.

Sit down and then lie down. Count to ten slowly.

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Put the benches away.

Ask the children to walk slowly backwards, looking over their shoulders and not bumping into each other. The children must then stop and lay down - very still.

The teacher will then move around the class and when they touch a child on the head that child must demonstrate their favourite movement of the lesson.

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Put the apparatus away.

Ask half the class to observe whilst the other half demonstrate how to travel along the floor on two hands and one foot. Change over.

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Put the equipment away.

Start by asking the children to demonstrate what you mean by finding space.

Ask the children to quickly touch different parts of their body, starting off quickly then getting slower. The next stage is to ask the children to lie down on the floor and slide around in as many diffent ways as possible.

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