canoe trip adventure circle

Here are the details for our current Adventure Circle, which has a premise of being a canoe trip. All songs/verses are from the Enki Education Kindergarten Movement Activities book, unless otherwise noted. Before the name of the song/verse is the targeted type of activity that the song/verse works on. The non-song/non-verse activities that I intertwine with the Enki activities target those same areas, but in a more direct way, as my kids need that type of work (and because Zoo Boy doesn't yet participate fully in the Enki Activities during circle, although he will often do them on his own at other times). This is what makes my adventure circle more of a "remediation circle" than what most Enki-using families are probably doing/need. (For most kids, the Enki activities themselves are enough Sensory Integration work.)

Call: Round and Round

Opening: November (from Enki 1st Grade Movement Activities)

“Today we’re going on a canoe trip! I bet we’ll see lots of animals and interesting things in the river and the woods. Put on your life vests (mime) and let’s launch our canoe!”

Repeating verse: Wild Goose Flight

Move down hall, back, and down hall again to kids’ room.

“What a beautiful Oak forest! Let’s stop here and get out for awhile. Wow, look at all the acorns!”
Mid-line: The Acorn

“Let‘s climb the tallest oak tree to see what we can see!”

Climb into loft.

“What a great view from way up here! Oh look! A squirrel is in this tree with us! I guess it’s looking for acorns.”

Mid-line: Squirrel Running

"Are you ready to get going? Let’s jump down into the leaves!"

Jump out of loft onto bed below.

"Let’s see what’s further down the river. "

Repeating Verse: Wild Goose Flight

Move down hall to living room.

“Hey look! A Swan!”

Base sense/vestibular/proprioceptive: Mama Swan

Repeating Verse: Wild Good Flight

Move down hall to bedroom.

“I see a Beaver!”

Sit on bed.

Proprioceptive: Beaver

Repeating Verse: Wild Goose Flight

Move down hall to living room.

“Oh, what a pretty Beech forest! Let’s get out here and see if we can find any more animals. Look out!!! A snake! Let’s step over it VERY carefully!”

Games and Ropes: Wiggling Snake (“by the river side”)

“Phew! That was a close one!
What’s the noise I hear when we walk? It’s a crunching, crackling sound?”

Point towards ground.

“Oh, look!”

Tactile/Fingerplay: Crackling Brown Leaves

“If we sit really still, maybe an animal will come out so we can see it.”

Sit silently, looking about. “Shhhhh…..”

(whispered, pointing) “Look!”

Tactile/ Fingerplay: Mouse

“That Mouse was SO cute!! I think it’s time to head home, it's starting to get dark. But I don’t want to walk across that snake again, so let’s go a different way back to the canoe. Here, we can go through this cave…”

Crawl through tunnel on one side of table.

“…and we can climb over these rocks…”

Scramble over chairs on other side of table.

“…and now we need to cross this stream. Jump from rock to rock to keep your shoes dry!”

Jump from pillow to pillow.

“There’s the canoe!”

Repeating verse: Wild Goose Flight

Move down hall and back.

“That was a great trip! Wait! What’s that I see?!?! Did it follow us home from the woods?”

Close: Owl

Closing Spiral: Sun is Rising