Year 3 - Physical education
Using props to balance in meditative balances
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 use a beanbag to help you focus when you perform each meditative balance.
Key Notes
- Move: balancing a beanbag on my body and holding a meditative balance requires being still and slow breathing.
- Move: linking our meditative balances together can help to extend our focus, combining different relaxation techniques.
- Think: whilst performing our meditative balances, we can notice how being still helps our mind and body relax.
- Feel: when linking our balances, showing self-motivation to keep practising improves our performance.
- Connect: supporting our partner if they find it difficult to balance the beanbag requires encouragement.
Vocabulary To Learn
- meditative: being very calm, quiet and focused
- focus: the concentration of attention and mental resources on a particular object, task or goal
- slow: reducing our speed or pace when completing a task
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once pupils start to link their mediative balances, they focus on creating a sequence of movements rather than the relaxation purposes of the process.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: balancing a beanbag on my body and holding a meditative balance requires being still and slow breathing. Move: linking our meditative balances together can help to extend our focus, combining different relaxation techniques.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'meditative'
being very calm, quiet and focused.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once pupils start to link their mediative balances, they focus on creating a sequence of movements rather than the relaxation purposes of the process. Correction: Explain that medatitive balances aren't the same as gymnastic balances and provide examples to support pupil understanding.
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