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Jump Into Learning: Kinesthetic Learning Activities

Do you have an active learner?

Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the student carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or watching a demonstration. People with a preference for kinesthetic learning are also commonly known as “do-ers.”

– Wikipedia

In my experience, all young children are active learners – learning so much more when the learning involves hands-on ‘doing,’ moving and exploring rather than solely observing or listening. So when looking for learning activities that provide Immy with an opportunity to revise the sight words she is learning, I have been prioritising activities that do just that.

Kinesthetic learning activities

Which is exactly why I was crawling around on a hot trampoline (think 36C), chalk in hand while AJ was napping and Immy at school one afternoon this week. I used the chalk to write six sight words around the edge of the tramp and in the early evening (when it had cooled substantially!) we headed out to jump into learning – literally!

Kinesthetic learning strategies

First up, I would call out a word and Immy would take a giant leap across the trampoline to land on the correct word. We started out slowly and later she tried to find and jump on each word called as quickly as she could. Then she took a turn choosing which word she wanted to jump on, calling out the word as she landed. For a kid who loves jumping on the tramp, this was a fabulous way to have fun while revising what is predominately considered book based or flash card drill learning.

Involving physically jumping is not only useful for practising sight words, it can be applied to all sorts of factual based learning – phonics, mathematics, problem solving, knowledge of scientific concepts or those related to the society and environment. Here are some other fabulous examples of incorporating jumping into learning from some of my favourite bloggers…

Colour Hop for Toddlers :: Learn Play Imagine

Moo, Quack, Baa! Animal Sounds Obstacle Course :: Lalymom

Hop, Stick and Jump Into Animal Classification :: Wildlife Fun for Kids

Weekday Hopscotch :: Kitchen Counter Chronicles

Gross Motor Number Recognition :: Danya Banya

Fun with Numbers & Leaves :: Peakie Pie

Number Line Smash (Addition & Subtraction) :: School Time Snippets

Race to 100 :: Afterschool for Smarty Pants

Driveway ABC Game :: Creative Family Fun

Hop! Skip! Jump! With Paper Plates :: Hands On As We Grow

Noisy Letter Jump Phonics :: The Imagination Tree

Learning sight words and CVC words with Hopscotch :: 3 Dinosaurs

Valentine Hearts Early Reading Activity :: Carrots are Orange

Kinaesthetic learning activities

How could you jump into learning with your kids this week?

Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

Filed Under: Bigger Kids Play, Featured, Literacy, Maths, Physical, Preschool Play

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Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Mehmood Ul Hassan says

    February 7, 2014 at 8:40 PM

    Nice work

  2. Helen @ Peakle Pie says

    February 8, 2014 at 9:08 AM

    Thanks for sharing our Fun with Numbers – there are lots of great activities here for us to try out too.

  3. Wanderlust says

    February 15, 2014 at 10:14 AM

    What a wonderful and creative idea! Makes me wish I had a trampoline, as I’m currently trying to come up with ways to teach my (very active) 3rd grader his spelling words.

    • Christie Burnett says

      February 16, 2014 at 5:40 PM

      Check out the ideas in this post, Kristen – https://childhood101.com/2013/09/sight-words-activity-ideas/ Many of them would work just as well for spelling words ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. rebecca says

    February 18, 2014 at 7:24 AM

    I have a glass board with a dry erase texta that my 6 yr old practises her sight words and spelling list.
    Also practises sums in adding up and counting in groups of 2..5…and 10
    Plus get her to write out my shopping list…altho sometimes it can be difficult to read what she wrote due to spelling errors but she is trying and learning more every day.

  5. Allison says

    February 18, 2014 at 11:00 AM

    Thank you for including our color hop! Fantastic post. ๐Ÿ™‚

  6. SchoolPage says

    February 18, 2014 at 8:54 PM

    thank you for sharing, very practical information

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