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Archive for May, 2012

Open Morning!

Posted in Notices on May 17, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

Just a little reminder to the parents/carers of our Funky Moves kids……

 

The children and Lesley would be delighted if you would like to pop in and see what we get up to in our programme!

Venue – Yester Primary School (hall)

Date – 24th May 2012

Time – 11:25am  

We look forward to seeing you there!

As always, your feedback and support are very much appreciated.

Certificates achieved this week……

Posted in Certificates on May 17, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

Amy – For Winning our Balance Challenge this week!

New balance challenge cert May

Well done Amy, you set a fantastic Challenge for the other children today and then won it! :-)

And another Obstacle Course……

Posted in Movements on May 17, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

Unfortunately Lesley had to help out with First Aid when Funky Moves was due to begin so we only had a short time on our work stations.

We still managed to have fun and work hard even though it was rather rushed!

Can you spot the variation to our layout?  There are three changes! :-)

We practised our Over-arm throw……

“Javelin fun”

We worked on our core strength……

“Rocking”

“Solid Rocks”

We polished up our Hockey Stick dribble……

“Zig Zag through the cones”

More bench travelling fun……

“Sliding on my back”

We finished with a Balance Challenge……

“One hand and one foot from the same side and freeze!”

Phew!, that was rather rushed but we accomplished all we hoped to achieve! :-)

The children are enjoying this programme so much that they have asked for it to continue next week.

Watch this space…… :-)

Obstacle Course Take 2……

Posted in Movements on May 14, 2012 by Lesley Dodds
 We had more fun today with a slightly different layout to our Obstacle Course from last week.

We had 6 work stations again!

The children were excited to see a Football Dribble station in place instead of the hurdles.

The children were asked to control the football moving zig zag through the cones.  They rose to the challenge!

“The ball kept running away!”

We love climbing through the hoop……
“If I move very slowly I wont knock it over!”

Our Hopscotch jumping is all falling into place……

“One foot to two feet”

 

The Children have been trying different travelling shapes along the benches……

“Sliding sideways along the bench”

“Walking backwards”

As always, at the end, we tidied away all the equipment then finished
 with a game of  Clear the Garden followed by
some Stretch and Tone to ease our
muscles after our busy session.
“Our Amazing Under-Arm throwing”
Check back on Thursday to see what Work station has been changed :-)

Certificates achieved this week……

Posted in Certificates on May 10, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

 

Evie – For Fantastic Bench Work!

New Bench Work cert

Joseph – For Amazing jumping through hoop!

New Jumping through the hoop cert

Polly – For Wonderful Goal Scoring!

New Goal Score cert

Amy – Our Balance Challenge winner this week!

May balance challenge cert

 Well done to you all!  All The Funky Move children are Stars!! :-)

Obstacle Course fun……

Posted in Movements on May 10, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

 

The Children helped Lesley set up an obstacle course this morning. We had 6 Work Stations!

Benches to travel on, hoop to travel through, hopscotch spots, hurdles to jump over and a goal post to score a ball through! 

Look how busy we were……

“I loved trying this!”

We found we could travel along the bench in different shapes……

“Nice and easy!”
“I can jump from side to side!”

We travelled through the hoop…..

 

“I tried to not touch either side!”

We practised our one foot to two feet on coloured spots to travel to our next station

“WE love hopscotch!”

We then showed off our Fantastic hurdle jumping……

“I jumped without knocking over the hurdles!”

Our last station was to score a goal through the posts……

“I scored 5 goals!”

We all enjoyed these activities and the children requested more for next week!

How could we possibly refuse them!
 
Watch this space :-)
 

Certificates Achieved this week……

Posted in Certificates on May 5, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

 

Amy and Joseph – for Fantastic Scooterboard Movements!

A New scooterboard cert (2)

J New scooterboard cert (1)

 

Well done to the both of you :-)

Scooterboard fun ……

Posted in Movements on May 3, 2012 by Lesley Dodds

 

Another busy session :-) we are getting much stronger!

We started with a warm up to beautiful music.  We stretched our bodies and imagined we were a tall tower!

“Reach up to the sky!”
We moved straight into Scooterboard races!
This was really fun and we pushed our speed to the limit!
“We are so much stronger”
“Superman races!”

We even managed to race moving forward Ziggy Zaggy through the cones!

“We are amazing!”

We checked our strength by pushing off from the wall

“Ready, Steady, Push!

How far do you think we travelled?

“Atleast a metre!”

We finished with a game of Tig, followed by a nice cool down and stretch and tone.  Lesley emphasised again how important it is to stretch before and after exercise.

 
We discussed our programme for next week and the children are keen on an obstacle course!
 
Watch this space…… :-)