Snowy Adventure Circle

Here's our current adventure circle, for your reading pleasure! For the convenience of other Enki Education movement book owners, I've included which movement book (Grade One or Kindergarten) and the page that the activity can be found on. I've also included which sensory skills we are working on with each activity. Activities designated with astericks are just straight sensory integration work and do not include a verse or song.

Call: Round and Round (Move to bedroom during last verse, climb into bed and under the covers.)

“Once upon a time there were two boys who loved the snow. One chilly winter morning, they woke up to find a winter wonderland outside.”

Opening: Rise With The Morning (Grade One, pg 66)

“The boys jumped up and down with joy”

Awakening Breath/Vestibular/Proprioceptive: **Bed Jumping**

“Then, still unable to contain their excitement, they ran around the house”

Awakening Breath: **Running** (wind up in living room)

“They quickly put on their outdoor clothing”

Midline: (mime, crossing midlines as you go)
“Snow pants: left leg, right leg
Boots: left leg, right leg
Coat: left arm, right arm
Gloves: left hand, right hand
And a hat!

Then they hurried outside.”

Midline: Snowstorms (Grade One, pg 96)

“The boys knew right then what they wanted to do! They grabbed their sleds and went running to the big hill.”

Vestibular: Winter Secrets (Grade One, pg 68) (Hold scooter boards over heads during verse, moving down hall to kids' room -- one verse per repetition of following sequence, leaving boards at bedroom door for rest of sequence.)

“The boys climbed the big hill”

Motor Planning/Core Strength: **(climb into loft)

“took a big jump”

Proprioceptive: **(jump/crash into bed below)

“climbed onto their sleds (belly down on scooter boards)

“and down, down, down the hill they went!”

Midlines/Core Strength: **(pull themselves down hallway with arms, belly down on scooter boards)**

“Then they did it again!” (repeat)

“And again!” (repeat)

“Until they were so tired, they needed to rest.”

(Flop down on backs, panting)

“They laid down in the snow, exhausted, and watched the snowflakes falling to the earth.”

Vestibular/Proprioceptive: Winter (K pg. 131)

“There were some other kids sledding, and the boys heard them talking about a sleigh ride this afternoon at the horse farm. That sounded like fun! But to get to the horse farm, they had to cross the river, and the bridge was closed because of the snowstorm. One of the boys knew where they could cross the river by jumping from rock to rock.”

Motor planning/proprioceptive/balance: **hop from pillow to pillow**

“They were almost to the other side, just one more BIG jump to make”

Motor planning/vestibular: Jump Rope Game (recite verse while jumping across swinging rope)

“Whirling winds around me fly,
How will I get to the other side?
Over the bridge in one big stride,
Safely across before I ride.”

“Once on the other side, the boys could see the farmer hitching up his team to the sleigh. They knew they had a few minutes before the horses would be ready to go, so they joined in with some other children to build a giant snowman.”

Fingerplay: Snowman (K, pg 173)

“The farmer called the kids over -- it was time for the sleigh ride to start! The boys hurried to take their places in the sleigh next to the other children. When everyone was snuggled comfortably under the thick woolen blanket, the farmed called to the team to “g’yup”. The horses started out slowly, picking up speed as their hooves got used to moving through the fluffy white snow.”

Midline: Horses (K, pg 76)

“The faster the horses moved, the louder the bells on their harnesses jingled.”

Vestibular/proprioceptive: **bounce up and down hall on moon bounces, singing Jingle Bells**

“The farmer dropped the boys off back at their house. The snow was falling again, and tomorrow promised to be another day filled with snowy adventures.”

Proprioceptive: Winter White (K, pg 130)

Closing: Sun is Rising