Keeping your homeschool students healthy with regular physical exercise can prove to be a daunting challenge when there’s a blizzard blazing outdoors. With the winter months ensuring that you can say goodbye to a number of usual outdoor activities, you will have to come up with PE ideas that work well inside the home. Here are some activities that you may consider.
1. Create an Indoor Obstacle Course
Empty out a sizable area in the middle of the room, then assemble obstacles such as cushions to jump on, water bottles to avoid and strings to pass under. Let everyone have a couple of practice runs before you decide to have a timed run. The person who takes the shortest time to successfully complete the obstacle course wins. Putting the room back to normal will add more exercise to the day.
2. Simple Aerobic Dancing
All you need is to play some dance music that everyone enjoys. Then come up with simple exercise moves to have an aerobics class. You can actually follow aerobics videos on You Tube with instructors. There are some great Zumba moves that you can bust on You Tube as well. Just ensure that you watch the videos before hand to see that they are moves that your homeschool students will be able to follow.
3. No Special Equipment Exercises
If you are on a budget investing in specialized exercise equipment for the home is out of the question. That does not mean that you can not perform specific types of exercises such as yoga and calisthenics which use the weight of your own body to help you do strength and stamina training. Again there are videos and websites online which will give you a good idea of what to do with your homeschool students. Map out a set of exercises before you begin
4. Treadmill, Cross Trainer or Exercise Bicycle
If you can get this health equipment you should coordinate the children and yourself into getting a certain number of minutes on the trainers each day. Have a schedule for who uses which equipment and when to avoid clashes and deciding turns every day. It is really not so difficult to get everyone to do a bit of physical exercise each day when you have the PE class scheduled right into the homeschool classroom time table.
