[angie drummond]

we play music that involves interaction

[Astrid]

I love to teach kids to dance. It ends up more as a fitness dance class but it’s good to take basic movements and put music on it.

[Ashley Socia]

Greeting them at the door in an enthusiastic manner creating providing and maintaining a reliable schedule offering variety of options where activities are concerned

[Sally]

Creating a developmentally appropriate, fun, and physically active classroom involves incorporating various activities that cater to different learning styles and energy levels. Here are some tips:

1. **Active Learning Stations:** Set up different learning stations that involve physical activity, such as a reading corner with bean bags, a standing art station, or a mini indoor obstacle course.

2. **Movement Breaks:** Incorporate short movement breaks throughout the day, such as stretching, dancing, or simple yoga exercises to help children refocus and re-energize.

3. **Outdoor Time:** Schedule regular outdoor playtime to allow children to run, jump, and play freely. Nature walks, scavenger hunts, and outdoor games can be great for physical activity.

4. **Incorporate Music and Dance:** Use music and dance to engage children and encourage movement. This can be through dance-along activities, music and movement sessions, or incorporating rhythm into lessons.

5. **Structured Physical Education:** Incorporate structured physical education classes or sessions where children can learn fundamental movement skills, play team sports, or participate in cooperative games.

6. **Flexible Seating:** Provide seating options that allow for movement, such as stability balls, wobble cushions, or standing desks, which can help children release excess energy while staying engaged in learning.

7. **Inclusive Activities:** Ensure that the activities cater to different abilities and interests, allowing all children to participate and enjoy the physical aspect of learning.

8. **Parent and Community Involvement:** Encourage involvement from parents and the local community in organizing physical activities, field trips, and events that promote physical fitness and fun.

By integrating these elements into the classroom environment, you can create an engaging and physically active space that supports the developmental needs of the students.

[ana]

I would recommend getting the children excited to get up and move. Having them out on scavenger hunts in the class or outside, using fun videos or meditation books.

[jillian]

greet each child as they walk through the door and center activities throughout the day to be fun and exciting for their age range, but also something where theyre learning when theyre indoors

outdoors create pe like games to play as a group on certain days that way kids are interacting together as a group instead of their own small groups.

[ValRhee Hazen]

Providers can create a developmentally appropriate, fun and physically active classroom by ensuring that each child is greeted properly in the morning to feel welcomed, adding stimulating toys and activities in the classroom such as sensory bins, including music time, circle time and outdoor play time.

[Hailey-Rae Johnson]

Physical activity in my class can look very small or simple but can have such a great effect with the kid and to do this I will play songs throughout the day not every few minutes but maybe every coupleof hours or maybe every hour that invites them to move their body and also participate in small exercise.

[HQ]

To keep children engaged, make the physical activities fun and exciting. Use bright colors, music, and themes to add interest. Encourage children to participate and reward their efforts with positive feedback and smiles.

[Sarah Ploium]

My approach would be to greeting each child every morning. Then always try to do fun activities as well as showing them the games that can be played both indoor and outdoor. Also making a helper chart can be a very fun activity.

[Tenlee]

Do you have any tips for creating a developmentally appropriate, fun, and physically active classroom?

Providing games that include everyone, singing songs, doing activities together, having jobs that rotate from older children.

[Morgan]

Create a physically active classroom by incorporating flexible seating, active learning stations, regular brain breaks, outdoor play, structured physical education, and movement-based transitions, while modeling active behavior and celebrating children’s efforts in physical activity.

[Anna N.]

Doing physical activities outdoors or indoors that involve staff and children to interact and play games together. For example, I saw in a video where it was a lot like musical chair, however, the one who didn’t have a spot would say a fun act about themselves, for example, “I like ice-cream”, and for the next round of the game, everyone who likes ice-cream would move to a new spot, and whoever didn’t have a spot would continue the train with a new fun fact.

[Danielle]

Incorporate music and dancing as brain breaks, the hokey pokey, going on a monster hunt song, etc.

Make movement into a game, kids love hula hooping, engaging in tossing balls back and forth, just engage in the movement with them in some way.

[Tania Flores]

• • Singing songs, dancing, having game days, and letting students pick what to do for the day.