Academic Skills

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Academic Skills

Physical education Skills

r Stability skills while standing, swaying, stretching, jumping, and transferring weight.

r Locomotive skills are supported when children do Exercise Rhymes in different directions and pathways (e.g. forward, backwards, to the right and left, in a zigzag direction).

Language Arts Skills

Oral Communications

r Listening skills are used as students listen to and learn the rhyme.

r Speaking skills are encouraged as children say the rhyme.

r Requires the children to follow direction and model the teacher doing the exercise and rhyming.

r Seeing the image of the Exercise Rhymes’ topic supports viewing skills.

r Pretending while doing the Exercise Rhymes is a form of representing.

Reading

r Provides variety in reading content.

r Supports reading for pleasure, fun and exercise.

r Rhymes and instructions expand the children’s vocabulary.

r Pictures provide comprehension clues.

r Sound/symbol relationships are supported between the flash card pictures, seeing the exercises done, and saying the rhymes.

Writing

r Research and writing assignments can be based on the rhyme topics.

r Can encourage children to spell familiar and unfamiliar words in the rhyme and instructional text.

r Before doing the rhymes, children can discuss the flash card pictures based on their prior knowledge.

r Children can predict word meanings of any words they don’t know based on the clues in the rhyme and then research the word meanings.

r Children can find other rhyming words related to the rhyme.

r Children can brainstorm other words that relate to the Exercise Rhymes’ subject.

r Children can write a story about the Exercise Rhymes’ topic including any personal experience, extending understanding.

Media Studies

r Provides variety in content with rhymes, pictures, rhyming instructions and instructional images.

Science and Math Skills

r The Exercise Rhymes™ can be tied to specific science lesson plans on the Exercise Rhyme’s subject (contact us for specifics).

r Numeracy skills are supported while counting the exercise rhymes repetitions.

Exercise Rhymes™ combine rhyming with physical exercises. Movement is known to enhance learning and Exercise Rhymes can be incorporated into classroom lessons and used to support many academic skills.

The photos on the front of the flash cards provide opportunities for children to identify and discuss the rhyme’s subject, supporting core knowledge & cross-curricular learning.

Photo: Julie Hughes