Time Saving Tips - Nov. '21

Now that your students have been doing Alligator Crawl for a few weeks, teach your students to stay low and go. By teaching them to stay low, it will encourage them to keep their chest and chin down and it will help them to stay off of their elbows. 

We encourage the students to stay low because as they are Alligator Crawling, their body is getting lots of heavy proprioceptive and tactile input to the whole front of their body. ​

The Proprioceptive System helps to understand where the body is in space, how much force is needed and how to time movements. That means, it’s the body’s ability to maintain just enough muscle contraction to remain seated in a chair. As children are developing this important system, they may have difficulty with motor planning, motor control, postural instability and grading movement.

• Motor planning is figuring out what part of the body needs to move in a a certain way to complete a task.
• Motor control is knowing what to do, but not knowing how to make the body do it.
• Postural instability is having enough muscles contraction to maintain a posture.
• Grading of movement is knowing how much force is needed to complete a task.

Place this visual at the beginning of Alligator Crawl to remind your students to stay low and GO!

​Download: TST Alligator

Resources:

• Pre-K CORE Guide: pgs 47-49
• Curriculum Guide: pg 66