Description
Combinging physical activity with verbal exercise to help the brain organize and focus effectively through rhythm and clapping.
Materials
Space Required
Standard RoomInstructions
Physical Activity Choice #1:
1) Stand in a circle.
2) Person 1 turns to Person 2, makes eye contact and claps. Person 2 turns to Person 3, makes eye contact and claps etc...
- Rhythm is set by teacher and should not increase or decrease.
Physical Activity Choice #2:
1) Students stand in a circle, each facing a partner.
2) Use any of the childhood claps you might know and do in sync with the entire group.
3) After each class is completed, students turn to face a new partner.
Adaptations
When these skills are mastered, add a repetitive dialogue of choice or:
- What a ta do to die today at a minute or two to two.A thing distinctively hard to say but harder still to do. For they'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two with a rat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat do and the dragon will come when he hears the drum at a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two.
- You can also alternate the clap exercise in several ways by changing rhythm, or challenge the actors to substitute every "to, two, too" with "three."