Mr. Tape

Explore how waves move in the ocean with your young learners. Fill a two-liter bottle half full with colored water, and have the youngsters move the bottle to make waves inside of it. Then have them listen to the song "Wipe Out"....

Get active by dribbling a ball. Begin with a game of banana bunch and high five beanbag grab. Then, practice dribbling a ball, and identifying the part of the hand with which your active learners dribble. Finally, conclude with...

Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...

Inviting children to join, Mister Chris sings and models warming up our hands, then using our warm hands to "warm up" our shoulders, knees, and feet. This activity helps to center children in their body, stretch, as well as identify...

Students choose favorite parts of their bodies and explain why each part is their favorite. Teachers take digital photographs of the different body parts and write down each student's reasons for choosing it. The pages are put together...

Numerous strategies are provided to help students understand the concept of personal space.

Students experience dance and movement. In this kinesthetic lesson, students practice movement of their limbs and joints. They use a hula hoop to identify personal space.

Students explain body shapes and the relationships between body parts when making these shapes.

Students use their bodies in daily activities, by promoting a regular routine of using large and small motor skills, personal space, and boundary awareness. They move a scarf to the rhythm of the different kinds of music the teacher...

Students explore body movement.  For this shapes and dance lesson, students demonstrate body movements and positions that resemble simple shapes.  Students read I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait and choose shapes from...