Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Moving Smart PMP Course

Wendy Pirie MHSc Movement Educator Smart start with PMP 
3 components - floor, movement & language follow up
Classical music 60-80 beats per minute, mimics our heart beat so can be comforting
Memory level age less 2 = 3
Balance - rolling, spinning & upside down 
Develop inside to out and top to bottom 
Dominance is eye, ear, hand and leg
Dominance can be determined between 2 1/2 & 7yrs. 
Left handed children need everything on the midline (central) 
Lefties write towards midline
Right write away from midline 
Reversals; position & orientation 


Eye fitness - eye hand foot coordination
Bubbles, balloons & feathers 
Pause, prompt, praise 

Building courageous kids, children leap from the known to the Unknown 
Crawling for 300 hours! 
Do things over & over & over again
Wonder... What does it do? Experience & associate 
Investigate... What can it do? Explore & master 
Play... What can I do? Experiment & invent
Own... What am i going to do? 
Language + Experinece = Understanding 
Dizzy giddy dish 
Launch board (catapult) squash the tomato. Start with foot on the board, heel on the back. Use dominant leg. 
Immerse Rehearse Automate
Music after lunch 
Good for all kids in the first 3 yrs of school 
Music, create a playlist for each term 
Language sheets, photocopy and have ready to go for the term 
Plan for whole term 
Eye tracking - adult hip height & width 
5-10 seconds to start with 
Language follow up folder with students evaluation sheet at front 
Wendy.pirie@movingsmart.co.nz





Monday, August 1, 2016

Play talk Learning through play webinar

http://youtu.be/KUHsXdyf8Pk

Examples...
Building with boxes - maths measuring estimating trial and error
Water play - capacity, measuring 
Authentic play engages children in meaningful oral Language
Sandpit - exploring different properties, calculating, constructing, physics, science, estimating and measuring, capacity, exploring and creating new ideas

Learning stories - observe with notebook and camera, document captures children language, thinking indicators capture it as a quote to gauge children's voice. Thinking about... Showing knowledge... 
Photocopy curriculum Documents and glue into children's book 
Whole class, photos, quotes, links to curriculum shows student voice as evidence 
Notebook is formative assessment, a working document 
Videos to capture essence of learning 
Need the time to observe children in their play 
Link back to children's previous learning, scaffold them back to revisit learning and use language for learning 
Children need to see they are learning all the time, to become life long learners 
Handing power over to the children 
Videoing children at play to make it managble 
Rules around how to play and use equipment, behaving appropriately, teaching respect to others and property 
Reflection time, link to learning 
Key competencies are most important
Te Whariki first year of school 
Learning dispositions (Key comps)
Working theories (edit thinking along the way)
Blogging about it, using reading and writing in real life 
Link to both curriculums
Process verses product, see the value in process it took to get there not just the creation 
Higher order thinking, once they've created what will they do with it to extend their play
Children using learning language eg curious, sharing, investigating 



Thursday, July 28, 2016

Room 8 photos





School Floors resource

Warm ups 
Breathing
Eye exercises
Monkey bars, thumb under grip 

Exercises
Rolling
Gliding 
Unilateral flip flop, same side
Cross pattern flip flop, opposite sides
Stomach crawling 
Rocking on all fours, forwards & backwards. Circular rocking.
Unilateral crawling, same side
Cross pattern crawling 
Cross pattern walking 

To check automatic response, challenge by:
Blindfolding
Backwards 
Drum tempo 

Additional fun activities 
Blowing ping pong balls
Clapping rhythms
Animal walks
Simon says 




Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Get ready for school dvd

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Activities for under 5s
- reflex inhibition, spinning around on a chair
- reflex inhibition, upper body, fine motor skills, pulling yourself along on a scooter board using a rope on tummy and back
- reflex inhibition & laterality, cows in the milking shed, crawl and make animal sounds 
- posture, upper body coordination, fine motor skills, developing fingers, monkey bar swing 
- vestibular stimulation, hanging upside down 
- vestibular system, spinning on chair counting backwards
- vestibular system, bouncing up and down on Swiss ball, rolling backwards and forward in tummy, side to side, on back, standing on top 
- vestibular system- rolling like a pencil 
- eye hand coordination, eye tracking flyaway sand balloons
- eye trackin, popping bubbles, watching feathers fall 
- active listening, body concepts  Simon says 
- auditory sequential listening, colour card 3 places 
- tactual stimulation, fine motor skills developing fingers, language, slime 
- tactile stimulation, treasure in bark
- gross motor skills, midline knees stuck together walking on heels, walking low like a duck, tip toes, sideways steps backwards 
- gross motor, mini tramp pat head at same time, tummy, back 
- tactile, fine motor, sensory, language shaving foam on table draw shapes 
- fine motor, midline, language painting with water 
- fine motor language, finger play rhymes 
- eye hand coordination throwing into a bin 
- vision eye tracking catching scarves 
- body concept, move to music songs, bean bag songs 
- laterality, directionality, gross motor skills, carrying buckets of water 
- laterality, bug & spoons
- body concept, open arms & legs lying flat on back
- directional language using hoops or feet outside, bottom inside 
- directional language hokey tokey 
-crossing midline beanbags into box on other side
-midline eye tracking follow thumb out in front 
- left right brain integration, posture, body development language, climbing over and along bars forwards & backwards 
- visual perception fine motor skills puzzles
- auditory perception make rhythm with sticks or clapping
- language draw shapes in chalk walking around them 

 Activities for older students 
- reflex inhibition crossing midline flip flops 
- reflex & vestibular stimulation spider walk hit ball with head
- reflex crawling under
- left right hand row row 
- upper body crab crawling 
- posture upper body coordination opposite arm & leg out
- vestibular stimulation rolling down a hill 
- vestibular & gross motor, over & under with partners
- vision eye tracking car drive around a figure of 8
- auditory listening I like running to the beach, step in time 
- auditory clap rhythms 
- fine motor sticks move up and down using fingers, roll out in front
- fine motor knitting 
- eye hand catch & throw
- sing a song about the body 
- sticks to identify body parts
- gates left and right gates 
- directional language inbetween in front behind 
- driving cars around your body 
- midline coordination cross pattern walking 
- midline picking up animals with tongs put them in container in other side 
-midline lie on back put balls in bucket on  other side 
-integration l r brain development with ribbons or scarves 
- memory auditory patterns with blocks I make then cover then children make 
- language visual memory animals in tray take something away

PMP 
Moon hoppers around cones
Ladder climbing cross pattern 
Bouncing balls
Strong man throw "make a strong person, point, throw" 
One thinking skill at a time, practise technique before equipment 
Rebound net 
Individualise up 
Practise on the floor before equipment 
Sequential memory - hold things in short term memory. Start with 3 places and increase. You tell, child repeat then walks. Visual learners will track as you say, kinetic will want to move, auditory will turn and listen.
PMP develops children holistically
Fit the child by individualising programme by making it more challenging eg beanbag on head 
Concentrate longer, physical, organisation skills

Smart words -Auditory & visual processing
Auditory discrimination & patterning
1. fruit, fruit, car 
2. First sound in caterpillar c 
3. Think of word inside your head tell us first sound, each have an object
4. Clap name pattern left to right 
5. Clap nursery rhymes
Auditory synthesis 
6. Catch names clap the bits catch the name do 3 letter words too
Auditory completion 
7. Finish the sentence... We see with our...
8. My pet is a... 
9. What am I? Feely bag 
Auditory association
10. Pick a different word carrot, peas, Apple 
Auditory sequential memory
11. Ears ready brains thinking shoulders ears nose touch as they say
12. Jump hop clap, tell me now do it 
Visual discrimination 
13. Pictures looking for the same or different things in two pictures 
14. Looking for lower case letters that are the same or the odd one out 
15. Pattern making 3 of each thing make your own pattern 
16. Patterns with letter shapes