Aim
How to find personal space with the help of a bubble.
Equipment Required
- Four cones for boundaries (same color)
- Spot marker for every kid
- Skill Cards of direction
Play Area Set-Up
Make circle markings on the floor and ask children to sit with their hands on their knees with their eyes looking at you (crisscross-apple-sauce).
- Explain any special safety rules for the day.
- Explain that when you give a specific signal (e.g. whistle blow), the children must Stop/Freeze, Look, and Listen.
Activity Description
- Greet the children, introduce yourself, and bring them to the center.
- Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle with you, then sit down Explain in 20-30 seconds what you will be doing today and start the first activity.
Define “Personal Space”: is all the space that the body or its parts can reach without traveling away from a starting location
Activity: Making shapes (6 – 8 minutes)
- Explain that the children will now make shapes with their bodies within their space bubble.
- Demonstrate that the space bubble gets bigger or smaller depending on the size of the shape.
- Ask the children to imitate you as you make the following shapes:
- Star (arms and legs stretched wide, standing or lying down)
- Ball (crouch and tuck as small as possible)
- Candle (stand straight and tall with arms above head)
- Flamingo (stand on one leg with arms out to sides)
- Give the children an opportunity to invent their own shapes.
If time permits, ask a few students to demonstrate their shapes and ask the rest to imitate
Teaching Tips – From time to time, ask the children to freeze, check that they are maintaining their space bubbles.
