This movement activity provides almost 4 minutes of organized movement. Use this video to practice the three Directions; traveling forward, backward and sideways. The music plays with the surface of the body that represents the direction to travel, up on the screen. When the music stops, the stop sign pops up, and the children should stop and look for the next direction to use when the music begins again! The new direction will show up 5 seconds before the music starts again. Make sure the children wait to travel until the music begins again. Use the 5 seconds to talk about how the students might travel in the new direction.
You can travel through the children as they move, making sure they are traveling in the correct direction. You can also use that time to point out the different body parts that are leading as the children travel!
This is also a wonderful formative assessment tool for assessing the Head Start Outcome;
Gross Motor Skills – The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance.
- Understands movement concepts, such as control of the body, how the body moves (such as an awareness of space and directionality), and that the body can move independently or in coordination with other objects.
Movement Across the Curriculum 