Comments on: “Moving” a Kinesthetic Learner 2

By: Jerri Ann

Jerri Ann — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:44:57 +0000

I’ve commented here before and I reference you a lot on my Mom is Teaching blog, so I thought I would throw in something on this post as well.

My degree is in physical education. And, if P.E. teachers across America were handling P.E. like they were taught (or should have been taught) in college, the public school P.E. class that has been shortened to 30 little minutes would be so much more beneficial.

Things I’ve done in the past…
1. Do sit ups and instead of counting 1, 2, 3 – I say 2 x 2 is and they do a sit and say 4, 2 X 3 is and the do the next one…..so on
3. I had huge posters with names of states on one side of gym and capitals on the other…..my classes that did this were separated boys and girls. The girls would do a jumping jack, a push-up or whatever and they would say, Alabama and the boys would do theirs by answering Montgomery, and son on
4. Take the spelling words from the grade levels and do the warm up exercises to the spelling words.

Then much the same during the cool down period. BAsically, with the sad state of affairs, 7 to 10 min in the beginning to warm up, 15 min or so to do game/stations/etc and then a few min to cool off using the same tactics above, this time using the multiplication facts to stretch.

They stretch out and answer math facts, history facts or whatever and then I say switch, they switch to the other leg, other side, etc and we do the same thing….

So, that’s my 2 cents worth. Problem is, P.E. teachers basically don’t do their job anymore….sad sad sad.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:22:33 +0000

We have a “swing room” in our basement- really it’s just hooks installed in the floor joists. My son’s recent favorite homeschool activity is to bounce on a stretchy swing while passing back and forth an inflatable globe and finding new countries.

For Christmas, we got two new inflatable balls- one for addition and problem solving and one for multiplication and problem solving. He can do an hour of passing back and forth as long as he gets to bounce while we do it.

By: Amber @ Classic Housewife

Amber @ Classic Housewife — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:38:14 +0000

Oh-my-goodness I love these ideas and want to try them out right away! I’ve always thought about getting my daughter an inflatable seat cushion or something to sit on and wiggle while doing seatwork. But I never have and I have the hardest time getting her to sit and do work. She acts out instead. I very much like the idea of tossing a ball or jumping rope while learning facts. Thank you so much!

By: Evelyn Saenz

Evelyn Saenz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:02:24 +0000

In the game Odds and Evens
Two players.
One chooses to be the odd winner.
The other is the even winner.
At the same time they show some fingers.
If the number of fingers is even the first person wins.
If the number of fingers is odd the second person wins.

This is a wonderful kinesthetic game for helping children to understand the concept of odd and even numbers and the algebraic rule that two even numbers make an even answer and the an odd and an even make an odd number.