Locomotor
It allows students to move through different environments moving their bodies from one location to another.
HOW DOES IT IMPACT SCHOOL FUNCTION
- Helping them build confidence and develop a sense of freedom
- Develops body awareness
- Improves balance and coordination of the larger limbs
- Helps the body and eyes work together
- Improves cardiovascular fitness.
- Allows them to play on playground equipment
- Walk in line
- Navigate the school environment safely/appropriately
- Assists our bodies
- Builds strengths in child's muscles
- With practice, it improves muscle memory to help the student move more proficiently
EXAMPLES
- Walking
- Running
- Jumping
- Hopping
- Skipping
- Galloping
- Sliding
- Leaping
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Propelling wheelchair
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Crawling
strategies
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Hopscotch
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Using different transitions down the hall- ie: hop, gallop, jump, sideways walk, tiptoe etc
- Sensory paths
- Extra playground time
- Gross motor brain breaks (i.e. Go Noodle)
- Transition times between centers
- Do motor movements within the classroom between reading centers
- Do coordination exercises such as jumping jacks or cross laterals to engage both sides of the brain before sitting down for listening or a test
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