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Ask children to touch their head, eyes, shoulders and knees. Do this very slowly. Ask children to name the body part or the initial letter of each body part as they touch it. Repeat 2-3 times. After touching the knees or feet, ask children to sit down very slowly.

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  • Discuss reasons for cooling down properly.

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  • Put the benches away.

    • Ask the children to walk slowly backwards, looking over their shoulders and not bumping into each other. The children must then stop and lay down - very still.

    The teacher will then move around the class and when they touch a child on the head that child must demonstrate their favourite movement of the lesson.

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    Ask the children to stretch up tall, then curl up small and then roll over sideways.

    Play follow my leader to conclude - touch head/toes, stretch up tall/curl up small.

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  • Put the apparatus away.

    • Ask the children to tip toe along with tiny steps from one side of the hall to the other - slowly !.

    Choose children to demonstrate their favourite stretching movement.

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  • Put the apparatus away.

    • Ask the children to demonstrate all the different ways of sliding around the room. This should be done slowly.

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