This week in the garden, we have been thinking of ways to develop our physical area. We have been working as a team to come up with some suggestions to make it more challenging and interesting.
While doing this, we realised we could add some more things into our obstacle course to focus more on our balancing skills. We talked about what balancing is…
“You freeze, That helps you stay still”
“Put your arms out. That helps you not fall on your face.”
“I can balance like a statue, look!”
“I’m like a flamingo”
This sparked some conversation about being “statues” and how they don’t move because they can “balance”. Think about statues, can they move? Can the wind move a statue?
As the children were becoming more confident with their balancing skills, we explored more tricky ways to practice.
The children found many uses for the tyres in the garden, and ways we could incorporate them into our play to challenge ourselves physically using them.
“Look how super fast I can go”
“I can balance if I lift my feet up!”
“If I put these 2 in front, then that will stop it from toppling over. Look, it worked! I’m a giant!”
Great problem solving everybody!
The children also showed an interest in making their own little chalk obstacle courses too…
“I want to hop! That helps me balance”
“I’m going to do a zig zag. I want to run on it”
Then, to top off a super busy week of physical fun, we played musical statues!
I wonder what we could add into the garden next? Great work everybody!!
