Movement skills/concepts

Cooperative balances, counterbalance, space and body awareness, and relationships (with others).

Set-up

Mats scattered in a defined area with an even surface.

Children in pairs, matched for height and weight, and with one mat per pair.

Activity

With your partner, children create a balance that has one wide and one narrow shape. Partners need to work together to partially support each other’s weight.

Children create different balances with their partner where they are partially supporting each other’s weight, then totally supporting each other’s weight.

Create a balance where one partner performs an inverted balance.

Can you see …?

• wide base of support
• extending body parts to counterbalance
• tight muscles

You could ask …

How can you safely support each other’s weight?

COOL DOWN/ CLOSURE

Review Skill/Activity, stretching, and questions.