Teaching Strategies Hopping

Learning Outcomes

To learn hopping.

Description Of Activity

Find a clear wall or a stable table or chair. Get your child to place his entire lower arm against the wall or hold a table or chair.
Hold your chills non-hopping foot, bent at the knees. Get your child to bend the knee of the hopping leg and push off the ground for one hop. Repeat.
Lend your arm as support to your child as he hops continuously.
Mark two lines or place two cones a distance apart. Get your child to count a number of hops needed to hop from one line or cone to the other.
Determine the lowest number of hops taken after a few tries. Or play hopscotch games.

Arrange footprints or flat markers as shown.
Get your child to hop (two left or right foot hops, rest, followed by two hops on the other foot) over a short distance.

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