(Ages 5 – 6)
Class 12 – Memory
Ultimate Warm-Up – 7 Minutes
- Arms: Advanced army crawls up and down the mat
- Legs: Jack in the box walks up and down the mat
- Abs: Donkey kong’s up and down the mat
- Core: Forwards cab crawls up and down the mat
Mat Chat – 3-minutes (Includes Water Break)
- Today we are going to work on MEMORY.
- MEMORY means to put things in one ear and not let them come out the other ear.
Here are three memory tips that you will learn today:
1. Reactive MEMORY is how quickly you can remember something. 2. Long-term MEMORY is when you need to remember something for a long time like your phone number and the names of your Martial Arts moves. 3. Short-term MEMORY is something that you only need to remember for a little bit, like where you line up for class.Skill-Building Drills – 15 Minutes
Fruits & Veggies:
The students will practice MEMORY by demonstrating their ability to use reactive memory by quickly being able to strike with the correct technique when the instructor calls out a fruit or veggie.- Teaching SKILLZ: TRICKERY – Trick the student by calling out things that are not fruits or vegetables.
- Brain SKILLZ: LONG TERM MEMORY – The student must be able to do their punches and kicks, while recognizing if the instructor calls out a fruit or a vegetable.
Which One:
Students will practice MEMORY by demonstrating their ability to show short term memory by having to remember all of the moves inside of a combination. This will challenge them mentally by requiring them to quickly have to remember a single move from their combination.- Teaching SKILLZ: NEUROBICS – Instead of counting the moves as “1, 2, 3”, you can count colors instead to connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
- Brain SKILLZ: WORKING MEMORY – The student must be able to remember each move in the combination that the instructor does, and then do the correct move that the instructor calls out.li>
Skill Stripe Test – 15 Minutes
Partner Stretches: 5-minutes
- Butterfly partner pulls
- Kneeling partner push
- Sitting elbow pull
- Straddle partner pull
Game – 3-minutes
- Bull Dog