Positional/directional Activities

[Guest laura286]

Hi all,

 

I am doing positional/directional activities for the following week/2 weeks. I am going to link it in to 'Were going on a bear hunt' and 'Rosies walk' and was wondering if you lovely people had any fabulous ideas you would like to share with me?

 

Thanks

 

Laura

[Cait]

Map drawing? Looking at right and left etc? Bear hunt has loads, could you act it out with lots of body movements for 'can't go over it, can't go under it'

[finleysmaid]

have you got a bee bot or a roamer type robot? great for these type of activities

[Panders]

We play a game with bean bags. Each child has a bean bag sitting in a circle, I begin by asking the children to put it on their head or wave it above their head, then they take turns saying where it should go next, i.e. under your chin, behind your back, beside your foot, between your knees etc. Then we stand up and put it on top of our foot and walk with it, on our heads and walk with it, throw it from left hand to right, put it on top of our foot and flip it up and catch it. Then we gather into a circle again and the children take aim and try to throw theirs into a hoop laid on the floor when their name is called. We make guestimates as to how many bean bags are in the ring and then count them back into the bag.

[Guest laura286]

What lovely ideas- thank you!!

 

Didnt think about acting out the bear hunt- great idea!

 

Yes we have beebots- couldnt decide whether I should introduce them this week, or wait untill the children are more secure with the language.

[chocisgood]

Children take turns to hide the class bear and others to say where they can see it. On top of.. under the.. etc. Does get noisy though!

[finleysmaid]

Laura guess it would depend on whether the children have used the beebots before - do you know if their previous settings had one?