Your name: Leah Wernsing
Team members: Ryan Williams, Zak Berlenbach, and Ashley Averack
4 December 2013
1. Why is this activity appropriate for young children?
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The activity that we are doing with the young children is about
different letters in the alphabet. It is appropriate for them at this
age because they are just learning about the alphabet. We are
going to have them make shapes of letters using their whole
bodies. This will benefit kinesthetic learners because that will be
physically making the shape instead of just seeing it or writing it.
They are also going to be doing movements out of the letters that
they will be able to have fun with too.
2. Teaching strategy
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The strategy that we are going to use to teach the children is to
demonstrate and do it with them. We will use both mirroring and
shadowing while making the letter shapes with our bodies so that
the students will be able to visualize what we are asking them to
do.
3. Outcome
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The students will make the shapes of certain letters in the
alphabet out of their bodies. They will also use locomotor and
nonlocomotor actions to move different ways in the shapes of the
letters.
4. Equipment
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We will need a phone to hook up to speakers that we will play a
song for the children to move to.
5. Introduction
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“Good afternoon little owls, we are the big owls Ashley, Ryan, Zak,
and Leah. Today we are going to be making shapes of a few letters
of the alphabet with our bodies. How many of you like to dance
and move to music?”
6. Warm up (Ashley)
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We are going to have the students stand in a circle around us so
that we can be seen by each child while we do the warm up with
them and warm up each body part individually to see how the
children can isolate body parts. First, we will have them do head
rolls to the right and to the left. Then, they will do arm circles
going forward and backward. Next, the students will move their
hips in a circle to the right and left. Finally, we are going to have
them sit down and shake their right and left leg and right and left
foot.
7. Development (Zak and Ryan)
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We are going to leave the children in a circle around us.
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We are going to explain that we are going to be spelling OWLS
using our bodies.
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The first letter that we are going to have them make is an “O”. We
will say the letter “O” and ask them what different ways they could
make that letter using their whole body. After that, we are going
to show them what way we are going to have them make it. While
playing an alphabet song, we are going to call out different words
such as, big, little, slow, and fast, and have them move their “O” in
those ways.
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The next letter that we are going to make is a “W”. We will
complete the same process that was done with the “O” which is
asking them how to make it, showing them a way, and having them
move in different ways.
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The next letter that we will have them complete the process in is
“L”.
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The final letter is “S”.
8. Closure (Leah)
- The children will sit down in a circle and we will be asking them
questions like, “What was your favorite letter to make?”, “Which way
did you like moving in your letter?” “What letter didn’t you like”, and
“what movement didn’t you like?”