Today's Classroom Activities :

All About the Feet

Skipping Feet
Physical Education/Math Make several construction-paper footprints. Write one of the following instructions on each: walk, skip, hop, run, crawl. Lay down a "track" of tape on the floor of your classroom or playground. Let one student pick a footprint from the face-down pile while another child tosses a pair of dice. Then the class will do whatever was determined – for instance, three laps of skipping. Repeat this exercise throughout the day when switching from one sedentary activity to another.

Feet First
HealthUse the following poem to introduce or conclude a lesson about the importance of feet. Have students add appropriate motions and then draw pictures of their feet doing different things.

My Feet

by Martin Shaw

My feet are used for dancing,
For marching one, two, three,
For showing off new sneakers,
For tucking under me.

My feet are used for climbing,
For burying in the sand,
For stamping when I'm angry,
For helping me to stand.

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