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INDOOR GAMES

Catching Apples

Skills: Gross Motor Skilis, Following Directions Activity:

Gather as many apples as therc ar© students in your class. (Bc surę each apple has a storn.) Altach one end of a string to an apple slem and attach the olher end lo Ike ceiling. Let a student try to eatch the apple using only his mouth. Once a student has cuught his apple, you can remove it from the string and give it to the student. Tie another apple to the string and let the nexl student try to catch it. You may vary the activity by having students caLch other types of food, such as pcars, peaches, piekłeś, etc.

One Pot.ato, ^rl\vo Po tato

Skills: Counting, Following Direelions, Gross Motor Skills Aclivily:

Have students use the traditional "One Polało, Two Potato” rhymc to play a gamę similar to ‘Duck, l)uck, Goose.” Have the children sit in a eircle and ehoose one ehild to bc “It.'’ That child is to walk around the circle and touch the head of a seated child with cach emphasized beat of the rhyme. When she gets to the lino, “And you nre not it,” the child who is touohed on the word "it” chascs her around the eircle trying to tag her before she sits down. Eithor way_t be gets tu be the ncw “It” for the nexl round.

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“Moo”

Skills: Listening, Following Direetions Aetivity:

Gather the children and have them brainstorm all of the ilems they can think of that are madę with milk. Aiter they have named all of the things they can think of, cxplain that you are going to namc some foods. Tell them that they are to listen carefully, and if the food you namc conlains milk. they are toyell, "Moo.” If it docs not contain milk, they are to remain sileni. Do not make a child who says "Moo” out of turn sit out, just have fun and rem ind the child to listen carefully!

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