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Gymnastics: Big and Small

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Ask children to go for a walk or run. Ask them to stop and make themselves as small as possible--no touching. Repeat.
Next, as children are running, ask them to make themselves as big and wide as possible. Repeat these activities several times at varied speeds.

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Encourage children to hold their shapes for a count of 5 seconds.

Children who find this hard to do practice stepping on command several times before attempting this task.

Encourage children to describe the shape that they have made. Emphasize langauge.

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Start the exercise by asking the children to run around and then stop before making themselves small. Ask the children the different sides they can curl up on e.g. bottom, side, feet etc.

The next stage is to demo to the children how you would roll over sideways then back on to your knees again. Ask the children to stretch up high, ensuring that you stretch the fingers and toes.

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Big and Tiny Steps:

Run/step/start on teachers command. Run and visit diferent places in the hall - corners, sides, middle. Move to the corners of the hall using tiny steps. Come back to the center of the hall using big steps. Repeat with variations.

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Ask the children to travel on their hands and feet in as many different ways and directions as possible.

Ask children to walk forwards and backwards.
Ask the children to then travel forwards and backwards on their hands and feet.

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Ask the children to move around the hall in a stretched-out way.
Ask the children to move around the hall in a curled up way.

Ask the children to move around the hall in a bouncy, energetic way. On teachers command, stop the children and ask them to curl up. Then ask the children to stretch out slowly.

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