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Ready To Learn Learning Triangle
RTL panel with sylized drawings of children performing different activities.

View, Do, & Learn

(printable PDF includes schedule for A Place of Our Own)

THE LEARNING TRIANGLE - MAY 2008

Ready To Learn Learning Triangle: Read Books, Do Activities, View TV That teaches

Theme:

Active For Life

Caregivers don't have to look far to find youngsters who are already overweight. One way to fight bulging waistlines is to get kids moving, learning, and practicing skills appropriate to their ages. Make certain they are getting at least the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity daily, including structured time to learn and practice gross motor skills.

View:

  • Teletubbies, Basketball, Friday, May 2, 7 a.m. In the live action segment, a young boy and his father play basketball.
  • Barney, Dancing & Singing, Monday, May 5, 1:30 p.m. Barney shows his friends many kinds of dancing.
  • Teletubbies, Go! Exercise, Thursday, May 15, 7 a.m. The Teletubbies engage in simple exercises set to music.
  • Dragon Tales, Sky Soccer, Monday, May 19, 9:30 a.m. Ord's friends help him learn how to play soccer.
  • Dragon Tales, The Big Race, Tuesday, May 20, 9:30 a.m. Working together, the gang learns how to run a road race.
  • Teletubbies, Gymnastics, Wednesday, May 21, 7 a.m. In the live action segment, children have fun doing gymnastics.

Read:

  • Froggy Plays Soccer by Jonathan London
  • Soccer Game! by Grace Maccarone
  • Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
  • Clap Your Hands by Gns
  • Lorinda Bryan Cauley by Jn
  • The Busy Body Book by Lizzy Rockwell

Do:

Get Up and Go!Viewing PBS Kids television shows about sports can inspire children to get up and do it. The key is to turn off the set after children view the activity.

Tape the Teletubbies Go Exercise broadcast May 15. The music and movement inspire kids to exercise along. Use it frequently to "get up and go," especially on days when outside time is limited or kids have the wiggles.

Dance along with Barney or other characters on TV. Play different kinds of music to dance to.

Show toddlers how to roll a good-sized ball, kick it, and toss it. Put an empty laundry basket out for children to practice tossing or kicking the ball into the basket.

Make a fun bowling game using 10 clean plastic soda liter bottles half full of water colored with food coloring. Set up like bowling pins and have children roll the ball at them to knock them down.

On a pleasant day, ask the children to move from one side of the play yard to the other in many different ways: hopping, jumping, running, baby steps, big steps, backwards, crawling, rolling, etc.

Using a sponge ball, practice kicking and bouncing the ball off body parts other than hands.

Play pathway dribble by laying out winding pathways with parallel ropes or tape. Children can softly dribble balls with their feet along the path.

Online, find other activities at PEC: Preschool Physical Education Lesson Plans.

Further Resources:

You can read more about the Ready To Learn Learning Triangle or try other activities from the SOPTV Educators section of this site.

BUILDING YOUR SKILLS: For People who Care for Kids

a Place of our own los Niños en su casa
A PLACE OF OUR OWN, and its Spanish-language series companion, LOS NIÑOS EN SU CASA, are an education series for caregivers of pre-Kindergarten aged children. Debi Gutierrez hosts A PLACE OF OUR OWN--Weekdays, 12:30 p.m. on Channels 8 & 22 in southern Oregon and 8 a.m. on Charter Cable Channel 21, Jackson County.--and Alina Rosario hosts LOS NIÑOS EN SU CASA--Weekdays, 7:30 AM on Charter Cable Channel 21, Jackson County. (View the current printable PDF of the RTL Learning Triangle for episode titles.)