Skill: FOLLOWING
Drill: Follow The Leader
Equipment needed: None
Instructors needed: Multiple to Monitor
Description: The students will practice their FOLLOWING skills by sitting or standing when their guardian stands or sits.
Step 1
Have your guardians and students spread out around the mat.
Step 2 – Setting Up the Drill:
Guardians will play follow the leader as the student follows. For example: touch your head, touch your toes, jump, etc.
Step 3 – Explain the Rules:
  • Halfway through, have the guardians all sit and then have the instructor call out commands as all the students follow along together as a group.
Step 4 – Takeaways:
  • Be creative, make it fun so the student will stay interested.
  • Don’t go too fast.
  • Encourage your students when they work as a group, but expect some to be a little shy.
Step 5
  • Continue as many times as you can until time is called (approximately 2-minutes).
 
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