A Baker’s Dozen Plans

Here's the best start to your year.  All children love letters and numbers.

Yoga balances like animals along with gymnastics skills make this lesson fun.

Get your year started with a great theme.  Introduce all the basics, safety, equipment, shapes, etc.

Everyone needs to practice balancing.  This is all about it!

Bugs is a great summertime theme.  They fly, crawl, slither, creep.  All great locomotor skills to practice.

Fun imagination.  Great ideas to use for props.

Balancing, rolling, trying tricks.  All Carnival games are a fun addition to class.

Learning colors and using them in our stations helps children learn valuable readiness skills.

Winter themes help work on balance, strength, and skill development with fun prop ideas.

Dinosaurs stomp, fly, swim, make noise and slither.  All kids know about dinosaurs.  Use this plan for fun interaction.

Teach children the names of equipment.  Safety rules, and basics for class.

Many movement activities across the floor.  Strong legs are important for all skills

Let's plant flowers, grow from a seed, and use fun imaginary movements to get stronger.

Partner Games, cooperative learning and caring and sharing are all great topics.

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.  What a great way to start class.  Children need to understand where their body is in space to do gymnastics skills.

Get them moving. Hopping on one foot, jumping with two feet, skipping during this lesson plan.

Peg leg jumps, parachute games, seagulls, and "Ahoy Matie" are all part of this fun lesson.

Show it off.  Teach them stretch and finish.  TA DA makes kids feel good.

Share with your students all the different sports that make up the Olympic Games in Rio this year.

Children start to use their imagination at age 3.  Use this as a way of learning, having fun and moving in different ways!

Cartwheels everywhere are part of this lesson.  The Turkey Wobble is a great song to add from the Flipping Education CD.

What a fun way to learn gymnastics activities with Princes and
Princesses, Dragons and Unicorns

Brrr, it's cold outside.  Some animals live in the cold.  Use these for fun activities this month.

Outer Space is so much fun.  Frisbees are a great prop for using and flying saucers and strength games.

Colors, numbers, shapes, letters and sequencing are Kindergarten Readiness activities.   The Rainbow is a great way to reinforce colors!

This lesson gives us the opportunity to work
on upper body strength, coordination and balance by including those animals in
fun ways.

Stop, Drop, and Roll is a life skill for children to practice.  October provides fall fun, Fire Safety, and more.

Who doesn't love Puppies?  Here are fun ways to use puppy activities and Valentine games!

Body part identification, safety rolls, and tumbling skills appropriate are in this lesson.

Everything you do on the right side, you should do on the left side.

Changing something small like the prop makes it a whole
new game for children.  Run run Gingerbread Man gives us many fun ways to run, jump, land.

Animal Walks promote upper body strength, coordination and balance.  These are some new friends to work with!

There are so many things to add to class about the Seashore and beach.

Sharks are always a great topic.  Themes work when children know something about them.  This is a great one.

This is a great lesson to include funadamental movement skills, sliding, throwing, rolling!

Spring is in the air.  New baby animals.  Things grow. fun additions to class

Birds, butterflies and bugs are fun in the Spring or anytime.  Learn butterfly hands for handstands!

What's more fun than moving like a car, truck, plane, bus, ship?  Easy to follow ideas for young ones.

Jumps with turns, combining skills for sequences which are part of Kindergarten readiness are all included.

Let's follow patterns of movement, and feel like a STAR.

Animal walks promote upper body strength.  Combinations help children learn sequencing.

Jumping, lalnding, rolling and falling are all parts of this month!

Here are fun things to do with a dog theme.  Puppy dog rolls!

Here's a month's worth of winter fun ideas.