CinnamonGirl

I'm taking a class this quarter on teaching phys ed to elementary school students (I'm not sure why it's on the required list of classes, but I won't go into that here.)

We're doing team teaching this week, and my group is doing a movement/locomotor unit. We're having the "kids" (all adults, pretending to be first graders...fun, fun) act out different animals; the idea is to get them to figure out how animals move, then...well, move. We initially chose animals that would get the kids to move their entire bodies.

The challenge is that we need to adapt the unit so that someone in a wheelchair will get just as much out of it as the abled kids... but not take away from their experience either.

Here's where you guys come in... (woo!) What kind of animals could we use that focus more on upper body movement, that young kids would be familiar with?

Also, any ideas on a game-type activity we could play at the end? We've thought about crab soccer (which would be difficult for someone in a wheelchair) or maybe some kind of Charades (which would be fun, but only one person would be moving at once, so that's a lot of standing/sitting around for the other kids.)

Thanks, all!

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