It is recommended that children learn how to stand on one foot for 5-10 seconds before entering kindergarten. Of course this is not a requirement but allowing for opportunities for your child to practice standing on one foot will encourage him to improve his coordination and motor skills abilities. Make a game out of it [...]
Some children are kinetic learners, they learn best while moving. Here is a fun rhyming game especially for those children. If you don’t have an indoor area big enough for all participating children to run, this activity will need to be done outdoors. Mark a line with masking tape, chalk or any other suitable way. [...]
Use tape or chalk to make a line on the floor or ground outside using coloured tape or chalk. Encourage children to see how many things they can do: jump over the line, hop along the line, slide on the line etc… After you suggest some things the children can do, they will probably come [...]
Here is a great poem to get children moving to: I Can Like a bunny I can hop. I can spin like a top. I can reach way up high. And I almost touch the sky. In a boat I row and row. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Now a bouncing jumping jack. I pop [...]