Fun & Learning at Home! Large Muscle Activities for Indoors from Ms. Tarah
Did you know that Ladybug teacher, Ms. Tarah is a former middle school gym teacher? She has lots of great ideas to keep you moving!
YOGA
Cosmic kids yoga adventures- Squish the Fish Adventure (connects to our current unit!!). 15 minutes of yoga. They have many other adventures too.
DANCE
Any music collection works-turn on your favorite music and turn your living room (or dining room or bedroom) into a dance club!!
Some online song ideas:
Specific songs kids in our classroom love to dance to:
Brain Breaks:
Laurie Berkner songs (my favorite-I spent many hours dancing and singing with my kids when they were little)
My all time favorite
OTHER IDEAS...
Throw balled up socks into the laundry basket
Put slider pads (or a towel) under the basket to it can slide, tie a rope (or a necktie) on as a way to pull-have child pull toys/stuffed animals/etc in basket (and get a pull from an older sibling/caregiver)
Build a fort with chairs/blankets/cushions from couch
If comfortable: Use couch as a trampoline (take off cushions and place on floor next to couch (supervise!!) or put a mattress on the floor and jump!!
Create an obstacle course to test balance, agility, etc. For example: Have a starting line then go under the dining room table, around a chair 3 times, back under the dining room table, walk on a line taped to the floor (or a piece of string or yarn), go over the footstool, under the coffee table, hop on one or two feet to the finish line. This is also a good way for kids to learn positional words like over & under.
Using a soft ball (or ball of tape), play a little indoor soccer with laundry basket as goal
Play hide and seek, one person is the seeker and everyone else hides or sardines, one person hides and everyone else looks for the hider. When someone finds the hider, that person join him/her. Each seeker joins the hider until everyone is there together.
More indoor large muscle activities!
RESOURCES FOR FREE FOOD
Information about food for children 18 yrs & younger from the Minneapolis Public Schools
Hope Academy will be providing youth ages 1-18 with grab and go bagged meals while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 virus. A Hope Academy Bus will be parked in the Visitor Lot on 24th and Chicago Ave S in Minneapolis. Meal pickup services begin Thursday, March 19 and continue Mondays through Fridays from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. No meals will be served March 27-April 3 due to Hope Academy's scheduled Spring Break.
If you find yourself in a tough spot, please let us know. We have WWP families and supporters who have told me that they want to help WWP families affected by the closures.
