Year 3 - Physical education
Performing meditative balances in pairs
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances
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Unit Summary
The unit will explore how we feel in our minds and in our bodies, when we experience various emotions. Pupils will learn how to execute meditative balances while focusing, to help combat feelings of anxiety. Pupils will gain an awareness of how to apply these techniques in day-to-day life.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to execute meditative balances correctly to help you feel more relaxed and you can work with your partner to help improve their breathing technique.
Key Notes
- Move: to perform a meditative balance and hold for 10 seconds, we need a strong posture, focus and slow deep breathing.
- Think: focusing when balancing for a long period of time and being still helps us feel calm and less anxious.
- Think: creating meditative balances helps improve our focus, strength and flexibility benefiting our minds and bodies.
- Feel: performing meditative balances to the best of our abilities demonstrates self-discipline.
- Connect: encouraging others and providing feedback shows excellent communication skills.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hold: maintaining a still position without movement
- balance: maintaining stability and control over the body's position to remain stationary
- partner: someone who collaborates or works together with another person or group towards a common goal
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that performing animal themed meditative balances requires acting like animals and making animal noises. This also means that pupils forget to control their breathing as they balance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: to perform a meditative balance and hold for 10 seconds, we need a strong posture, focus and slow deep breathing. Think: focusing when balancing for a long period of time and being still helps us feel calm and less anxious.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'hold'
maintaining a still position without movement.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that performing animal themed meditative balances requires acting like animals and making animal noises. This also means that pupils forget to control their breathing as they balance. Correction: Explain to pupils that if we make noises and actually act like animals, we are creating actions and using characterisation, not balancing to ensure calm, focus and relaxtion. We must remain silent and focus on long, slow breaths in and out.
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