September Preschool PE

September

Welcome to Preschool

Warm Up--I do the same warm up each day, which is a stretching greeting song

Tooty Ta by Dr. Jean—Explain the importance of following the directions in the song.  We must follow the directions to be safe and have fun.

Color Sort—Have different baskets placed throughout the room.  Call out different actions for children to help find the color and put in the right basket.  Pick up a red a twirl it into the basket.  Pick up a blue and hop it to the basket, etc

Cool Down using Toe, Leg, Knee by Jim Gill

All About Me

Warm Up

If I Were a Butterfly (The Butterfly Song) by Brian Howard—Have children recreate the action of the animals and then move in ways that only the can during their chorus

Silly Dance Contest by Jim Gill

Cool Down using Toe, Leg, Knee by Jim Gill

Friendship

Warm Up

Friend Exercises

      Row, Row, Row Your Boat—Hold Hands and Touch Feet and Rock back and forth as you sing,

start slow and see if you can get a bit faster.  Switch Partners and say “Hi” to your new friend

     Mirror Exercises—Take turn letting each child try to mimic the other child.  Switch Partners and 

            say “Hi” to your new friend

      Playing Catch

     Musical Shares—No one gets out.  Everyone just sits on each other’s lap.

Cool Down using All Around the Circle by Music with Mar

Parachute Day

Warm Up

Play a variety of parachute games—adapt as needed for each class

Merry-Go-Round: Children turn their bodies sideways and hold the chute with one hand. They then walk around in a circle, making a "Merry-Go-Round." For variety, children can hop, skip, jump, etc. You can stop music as a cue to reverse and go the other direction.

Change Up: Call out names, colors, ages, etc, and those children swap places under the chute before it falls, and run to an empty space.

Parachute Tag: Lift the parachute high overhead. Call one child's name and have her run (skip, hop, twirl or crawl) to the other side before the parachute comes down and tags her.

Shoe Shuffle:  Have some students take off one shoe and throw it under the parachute. On the count of three, raise the chute, and the designated children have to run under and find their shoe before the chute comes down.

Cool Down using All Around the Circle by Music with Mar