Homeschool reference for Kinetic learners
This doesn’t have to be just for homeschoolers, anyone can use the methods. The post is written by Colleen Felz and is entitled, "Moving" a Kinesthetic Learner 2.
She has some awesome tips on her site for how to make this work and of course, being that moving and learning is where my expertise is, I had to jump in the picture. Here’s my comment:
I’ve commented here before and I reference you a lot on my Mom is Teaching blog, so I thought I would throw in something on this post as well.
My degree is in physical education. And, if P.E. teachers across America were handling P.E. like they were taught (or should have been taught) in college, the public school P.E. class that has been shortened to 30 little minutes would be so much more beneficial.
Things I’ve done in the past…
1. Do sit ups and instead of counting 1, 2, 3 - I say 2 x 2 is and they do a sit and say 4, 2 X 3 is and the do the next one…..so on
3. I had huge posters with names of states on one side of gym and capitals on the other…..my classes that did this were separated boys and girls. The girls would do a jumping jack, a push-up or whatever and they would say, Alabama and the boys would do theirs by answering Montgomery, and son on
4. Take the spelling words from the grade levels and do the warm up exercises to the spelling words.
Then much the same during the cool down period. Basically, with the sad state of affairs, 7 to 10 min in the beginning to warm up, 15 min or so to do game/stations/etc and then a few min to cool off using the same tactics above, this time using the multiplication facts to stretch.
They stretch out and answer math facts, history facts or whatever and then I say switch, they switch to the other leg, other side, etc and we do the same thing….
So, that’s my 2 cents worth. Problem is, P.E. teachers basically don’t do their job anymore….sad sad sad.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:45 am
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