School is very important, but it's not the only setting where your children can learn. Family is more important to improve kids personality. Read my suggestions for firing up your children's minds to learn beyond the school walls.
- suggestion number one is aerobic for kids
in this activity you need music player and cassette, compact disc, or radio
Directions
Aerobic dance is an enjoyable and energetic way to get fit.
Choose some music that has a good clear beat and is rhythmic. The music you choose should last from 10 to 20 minutes.
We will start by walking in place to the music to warm up. If you don't know any dance moves, you can just jog in place, jump to forward and backward, hop on one foot and then on the other, and do jumping jacks.
Put them all together in a sequence that you can repeat.
Write it down later so you can remember it for next time.
To learn new aerobic dance moves, you can watch an aerobic class on Television or ask your Phisical Education teacher at school.
Continue to add variety and challenge to your aerobic routine and soon you will look forward to your afterschool aerobic dance session.
- suggestion number two is question-answer jumping
by Trish Kuffner, author of The Children's Busy Book
Directions
These rhymes can be used by children jumping in groups and by individual jumpers.
Each rhyme asks a question that's followed by a series of possible answers. The answer is determined by the word on which the jumper trips. If the punching in this rhyme bothers you, say, "My ma stepped on your ma's toes" instead.
My ma and your ma were hanging out clothes.
My ma gave your ma a punch in the nose.
Did it hurt her?
Yes, no, maybe so, yes, no, maybe so?
For the next rhyme, the jumper names something that starts with the letter on which he trips.
ABCs and vegetable goop.
What will I find in the alphabet soup?
A, B, C, D, E, F, G?
In this last rhyme, the letter on which the jumper trips predicts the name of the jumper's future sweetheart.
Strawberry shortcake, cream on top.
Tell me the name of my sweetheart.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G?
