Today's Classroom Activities :

Music and Exercise

Musical Motivation
Music/Exercise Invite your students to bring in music to do yoga by one day and music to dance to another day. Discuss what type of music works best for yoga or dancing. Is there a particular kind of music that inspires kids to run or skip rope? Experiment with many different pieces of music to determine which is best for each exercise type.

Exercise to Music Lesson Plan
An exercise-to-music lesson plan has five components that need to be planned for every class. Allowing and planning for variety to keep students interested and work different parts of the body should be a priority for any teacher. The basic format is warm-up, aerobic, muscle strengthening, stretch, cool-down.

Four Corners Locomotion
Students will learn a warm-up activity and how to distinguish the locomotor movements.

Airplane
This is a movement activity which works on upper body strength and space awareness. The lesson requires only an open space for children to be able to run about in which is not crowded for them.