Locomotor Sequence
Organization:
Students practice locomoter skills such as: stepping/walking, jumping, hopping, skipping, sliding, leaping, marching, and galloping. These movements are put to music and also used without music.
- Once the students have practiced these movements, they are instructed to create their own four-movement sequence.
- Allow the students to practice their sequence to music.
- Students then share their sequence with someone else. These pairs teach each other their unique four-movement sequence.
- These two sets of sequences are put together to make an eight-movement sequence. This new sequence is now set to music.
Outcomes
- Motor skills/locomotive
- Higher-level thinking
- Independent thinking
- Team work/working with peers
- Communication
- Spacial awareness
- Labeling skills/categorizing