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‘The Gruffalo’ at preschool dance today.

🍁 Today we started to learn about Autumn and how the leaves fall off the trees, how they move in the wind 💨 and all the different ways we can balance them 🍁

Thank you to Alton Town Council for having me this afternoon.

What a way to start a Monday!!! A little party for my preschool group 🎈

👽 Space continued… 👽

I already have a fabulous SPACE lesson plan but I wanted to create more content to give instructors and teachers more variety. Still using all of the same equipment / props (because why spend extra money if you don’t need to) we managed to fill another fabulous 30 minute class. 🪐

🤡 🤹‍♀️ Circus themed music and movement with my preschoolers this morning 🤡🤹‍♀️

Always set children up for success!

I’ve been focusing on ball skills with KS1 and it’s tricky to hit a ball at such a young age. However, it’s super fun and simple to hit a balloon. Master this, get their attention, go through teaching points and then you can move down in ball size!

Here you see cones but we see Rhino horns! 🦏
Jungle adventures today with my preschoolers.

Today I set up 3 different stations for my preschoolers.
1) Throw a ball into a hoop (different heights and angles)
2) balance beam and jump the blocks
3) Animal feet moving and stepping / jumping over objects.

We then looked at the story of Goldilocks and the 3 bears 🐻🐻🐻 I broke the story down into sections and applied relevant dance and fitness exercises to go with that section. A very fun lesson ✅

This morning we focused on hoop and beanbag skills (in prep for the older ones going to school) and then we had some superhero fun 🦸‍♀️🦸

This half term we are exploring some gross motor skills in prep for some of my preschoolers moving onto infant school in Sept🥹

Their ball handling skills were absolutely incredible, the best I’ve seen from such young children (and in some cases better than my KS1 children) 👏

I also purchased some new foam rockets this week so we had to have a play around with them too 🚀