Dance along with a few of these videos or dance to three of your favorite songs.

A Moose-Ta-Cha Pop See Ko Poppin' Bubbles

Locomotor Skills (need bean bags, socks, rags, wash clothes, stuffies,...)

• Spread several bean bags or other objects around your activity area

• Good activity to do with music.

• Walk around the area and count the bean bags

• Jog around the area. On a signal or when music stops, freeze and balance on one foot.

• Repeat with different locomotor skills like jump(2 feet), hop(1 foot), skip, and side slide

• Leap over bean bags

Toss Bean Bag (balled up sock, balled up paper, small stuffed animal)

• Toss the Bean Bag straight up in the air:

  • Clap 1 time before it hits the floor.

  • Clap 1 time and then try to catch it.

  • Clap as many times as you can before it hits the floor.

  • Clap as many times as you can and then try to catch it.

  • Toss with right hand only (repeat tasks above)

  • Toss with left hand only (repeat tasks above)

  • Toss and turn 360 degrees before the bean bag hits the floor.

  • Start with the beanbag on top of your foot. Flip it into the air and try to catch it.

  • Catches a Soft Object

With the Beanbag (sock, t-shirt, small stuffed animal) on the floor:

• Stretch your body and log roll over it back and forth.

• Start low like a frog, and then jump over it backward, forward, and side to side.

• Sit on the floor. Stretch and curl by picking the beanbag up with your feet, reaching and touching it with your hands, and then stretching and setting it back down.

• • Click here to see the October calendar.

  • These are ideas to get you and your family moving.

  • How many can you check off before the end of the month?

Parents can read the text below to their children to begin a conversation about hand washing.

You can also watch this quick video about handwashing.

You can print out the handwashing handouts or simply view them on your computer.

Hand Washing

Introduction:

Start with the handouts: When We Wash Our Hands Before and When We Wash Our Hands After. Ask students to circle the pictures that reflect a time when we should wash our hands before and after these incidents. Follow up with asking students to tell you -when do we need to wash our hands? (before: we prepare or eat food, before we treat a cut or wound, before we help someone who is sick) (after: we go to the bathroom, handle uncooked food, blow your nose, cough or sneeze, touch a pet, touch garbage, care for someone who is sick). Today’s lesson will focus on how and why we was our hands throughout the day.

Parent Read Aloud:

We wash our hands to prevent the spread of germs. Germs are small microorganisms that we cannot see with our eyes, only a microscope. Some germs are helpful to our bodies but most can make us sick and we want to avoid contact with those germs. The best way to prevent the spread of germs is to wash your hands throughout the day. Germs are spread when people do not wash their hands after the sneeze or cough or after going to the bathroom. Germs can be spread if we cough or sneeze on one another. They can also be spread by shaking hands. Germs can live on our skin but they can also live on objects around us like door handles, desks, pencils, and lots of other surfaces so it is important to wash our hands regularly, especially before we eat and after we go to the bathroom, handle trash, or touch pets and animals. It is important to wash our hands properly to make sure we get rid of all of the germs living on our skin.

Parents can demonstrate - How to wash our hands:

1. Wet your hands

2. Apply soap

3. Wash all surfaces on your hands thoroughly, including wrist, palms, back of the hands, and under fingernails.

4. Rub hands together for at least 20 seconds (cue the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice).

5. Dry hands with a clean cloth or paper towel.

6. Turn the faucet off using the paper towel you used to dry your hands.

Closure:

You now know when and how to wash your hands. Make sure you follow the steps for hand washing before eating, preparing food, treating a cut or scrape, or touching someone who could be sick. Make sure you wash you hands after going to the bathroom, sneezing or coughing, after handling trash, and after petting an animal.