Action Kids 500 Contents

Teaching Guide

• Index of teaching guide
• Physical development Area of Learning
  1. Manipulative skill development
  2. Gross motor and locomotor skill development
• The importance of physical activity
• Access to physical activity

  Physical and developmental disability
  Visual impairment and hearing impairment
  Higher level of physical development

• Stages of development
• What is involved in physical development? - An analysis

  Co-ordination and Balance
  Mobility
  Spatial awareness
  Manipulative and aiming skills

• Resources
• Equipment for physical activity
• Safety

  General Safety Considerations
  Specific safety checks

• Structure of an activity session
• Planning a session

  Keeping active
  Teaching Strategies
  Make it interesting

• About the Manual

  Structure
  How to Select Activities

Warm-up

• Index of Warm-up activities
• Warm-up Activities

1. Stretching and Curling Movements
2. Shaking Movements
3. "I Wiggle My Fingers"
4. "The Grand Old Duke of York"
5. Clapping in Different Places
6. Clapping Heavily and Lightly
7. "Five Little Ducks"
8. Skipping and Shaking
9. "Little Polly Flinders"
10. "Here We go Round the Mulberry Bush"
11. Curled and Stretched
12. "Little Miss Muffett"
13. Pointing Movements

14. Heavy and Light Movements and Counting
15. Awareness of Different Body Parts (Click to View Activity)
16. Heavy and Light
17. "Jelly on the Plate"
18. "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe"
19. "Five Currant Buns"
20. "The Sun has got his Hat On"
21. "The Yellow Balloon"
22. "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling"

Spatial Awareness

• Index of activities leading to Spatial Awareness
• Introduction
• Safety Points
• Spatial Awareness activities

  S1 Early Stages of Spatial Awareness
  S2 "Seek Your Spot"
  S3 "Fishes"
  S4 The Tide's Coming In"
  S5 "Going for a Walk"
  S6 "Walkies"
  S7 "Rabbits"
  S8 "Rabbits to Music"

S9 "Rainbows"
S10 "Shapes" (Click to View Activity)
S11 "Special Spots"
S12 "Cars"
S13 "Up and Down"
S14 "Up and Down to Music"
S15 "Pick Up"
S16 Activities for Moving and Stopping
S17 "Crossing Man"
S18 "Tadpoles, Frogs and Crabs"
S19 "Traffic Lights"
S20 "Traffic Lights to Music"
S21 "Traffic Lights with Cars"
S22 "Driving to School".

Activities Leading to Gymnastics

• Index to Activities leading to Gymnastics
• Introduction
• Safety

Section 1 - Awareness of body parts and body shape - balance

G1 Awareness of Body Parts
G2 Find the Spot
G3 Dotty Shapes
G4 Sticky Spots
G5 Taking Photographs (Click to View Activity)
G6 Choose
G7 All Shapes and Sizes
G8 Statues
G9 Copy Cats
G10 Circles and Squares
G11 Circles and Squares to music
G12 Squeeze
G13 Fill the Shape
G14 Colours

Section 2 - Travelling

G15 Travelling on feet
G16 Progressive Tasks for Footwork
G17 "Which direction?"
G18 "Traffic Policeman"
G19 "Animals"
G20 "Changing Roles"
G21 "Animal Stories"
G22 Children's Animal Stories
G23 "Singing Animals"
G24 "Sea Creatures"
G25 "Beans"
G26 "Moving Beans"
G27 "Singing Beans"

Section 3 - Turning

G28 "Hands, Feet and Hoops"
G29 "Turning wide and Thin"
G30 Bouncing
G31 Turning on Different Body Parts
G32 Rocking
G33 Rolling - "Sausage and Eggs"
G34 "Turn and Roll"

Section 4 - Bouncing and Jumping

G35 Bouncing and Progressive Tasks
G36 "Spot Bouncing"
G37 Bounce and March
G38 "Crossing the River"
G39 "Jumping the Stream"
G40 "Jumping Down"
G41 "Hot Foot"
G42 "On and Off"
Section 5 - Using Large Apparatus
G43 Balance along a Line
G44 Balancing along Raised Objects
G45 Climbing
G46 Other Portable and Larger Apparatus
G47 Lifting and Carrying
G48 Wheeled Toys
G49 Role Playing
G50 The Structure Session using Large apparatus

(K) Large Apparatus

72. Steps
73. Large Climbing Apparatus
74. Hanging
75. Swinging
76. Pedals
77. Pushing Wheeled Toys
78. Crawling
79. Sliding
80. See-Saw

(L) Shapes

81. Arty Dough
82. Pasta Shapes
83. Greeting Card Factory
84. Newspaper Shapes
85. Exploring Circles
86. Dotty Shapes
87. Sticky Spots
88. Squeeze
89. Colours
90. Beans
91. Blowing Bubbles (Click to View Activity)

(M) Wiggling and Wriggling

92. Wiggling William
93. Soggy String
94. The Snake Charmer
95. I Wiggle My Fingers
96. Shaking Bodies
97. Jelly On the Plate
98. Ribbons “Hokey Cokey” Rock

(N) Moods, Emotions and Rhythms

99. Rainy Day – Percussion
100. Two Sounds
101. Follow My Feet
102. Responding to Different Rhythms
103. Contrasting Rhythms
104. Responding to Moods and Emotions
105. Red and White

(O) Matching, Grouping, Sorting and Filling

106. Matching
107. Grouping
108. Sorting
109. Filling
110. Making Shapes
111. Pile it Up
112. Tidy Up
113. Tidy Up (Colours)
114. Pass and Fill

(P) Quiet

115. Raining
116. Go To Sleep
117. Waking Up
118. Yawning
119. I Touch My Head
120. Ring-A-Ring of Roses
121. Teddy Bear

Assessment

The Purpose of Assessment
What do we assess and when do we assess?
How do we assess and record?
Recording Systems
Assessment Recording Systems

Alphabet Images (Click to View Example)

Throughout the book alphabet letters are accompanied by drawings which could be photocopied and coloured by the children.

Music

There are 28 pieces of music on CD specially designed to accompany this manual.

1. Mulberry Bush
2. Statues
3. Statues in the Mood
4. Up and Down
5. Rabbits
6. If You’re Happy and You Know It
7. Walking
8. Bouncing
9. Giants and Fairies (Click to Listen)
10. Highs and Lows
11. Rocking
12. Painting
13. Go to Sleep
14. Blowing Bubbles

15. The Snake Charmer
16. Move and Shake
17. Hokey Cokey Rock
18. The Sun Has Got His Hat On
19. Skipping
20. Sad and Happy
21. Angry and Calm
22. Soft and Floating
23. Marching
24. The Grand Old Duke of York
25. The Rainstorm
26. Energetic and Bouncing
27. Marching and Skipping
28. Peaceful

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