Article: Renee Weider, Teacher of Adapted Physical Activity, Visually Impaired and Blind, Ministry of Education.
Physical activity invites situations that require cooperation, mutual help, teamwork, etc. The movement and playful activities are an opportunity to establish connections and deepen the social integration of children with visual impairment or blindness.
Task Objectives:
- Strengthening motor security among the child
- Strengthening confidence in self-image and a sense of competeness
- Imparting age-matching sports skills
Destinations:
- Me and my body – naming, using body parts, and isolating organs (recommended in front of a mirror).
- Strengthening the muscles of the body – strengthening with a roll, plate and stevular, tunnel, physique ball, lying on a bench and pushing with your hands, going up and down from a bench.
Examples of physical activity and play
- Runs and jumps
For example: running, galloping a horse, chasing steps, running in a slalom between cones, skipping (high stage), jumping with two legs, jumping from side to side, jumping punctuation closing (combination of hands), hooping to hoop, jumping on one leg standing on one leg.
- Running – hand in hand, running alone towards a ringing bell, running in circles in both directions, to the wall and back.
- Running in the slalom – crossing the midline.
- Galloping, persecution, jumping from side to side – a combination of left and right
- Jump from side to side, jump punctuation closure – using a skip to get around the space
- Jumping on one leg – looking towards a certain point, for balance.
- Experience activity with a ball
- Delivery and seizure – delivery of a small sandbag to head height and back (on the middle line)
In pairs – "take", preparing hands, removing from the bottom towards the abdomen and not the front. The boy is removed from the chest.
Step higher than dedication as you go.
It's better to teach the kid self-defense, tell the boy who sees him throw the ball back through the floor.
- Targeting – using a prominent target and a bell aimed at the target.
- Dribbling – On the midline, slightly away from the body, a ball jumps for example a rubber ball.
- Use of ball-like objects – e.g. sponge cube, s cracker bag, bean bag, hoop.
- Identification and use of the right and left hand and foot
Use your right and left hands (although there is still no preference).
Jumping, galloping, chasing with a hoop to roll, spinning left and right.
- Practice motor tasks that require orientation in space
Running from line to line, running between objects, and between hoops.
- Concepts of overspace, beneath, above, before, behind, sideways,
Inside the tunnel, on the cylinder, jump over the cube, standing in front of a chair, behind a chair
- Plan symmetrical and asymmetric motion
Jumping on a skip, dribbling a ball, walking on crutches,
- Track a mobile object
Tracking an object in the field (ball activity, flying saucer, hoops)
- Develop motor agility
Running from line to line at a given time, on time measure, jumping with two legs from one point to another.
- Strengthening equilibrium
Standing on one leg, walking on a skip, walking on a low bench, walking on crutches (more advanced stage)
Playing in a group for children with visual impairment
The games can be suitable for play and sports groups for children with visual impairments and for visually impaired children who are in a desirable group with seeing children.
The game can also be adapted in a parent-child family setting or siblings.
Purpose of the activity:
Experiential activity, empowering, for the group of equals, games of sharing with the aim of developing and improving the child's self-image and self-confidence, and motor.
All activities are adapted to visual impairments in a sophisticated and safe place using prominent objects, and clear explanations of the rules of the game, and during the game.
The activity will include sporting games:
Running games, and agility
- Herring,
- "Tip, Sue Ni,"
- "Who's afraid of the big bear?
- Relay race – running, with the help of an object (such as – moving a stick, walking on crutches, a hoops track…)
- "The Handkerchief Concept" game – each child received a number from one to six (according to the number of children). Three meters away, a handkerchief is placed, the child, whose number is said, got up and ran to get the handkerchief. Initially it was said number one (one child got up, unbeatable), followed by two numbers.
Games that include change of direction
- Running after a leading friend – (the bell can be used), the friend needs to change directions, and the friend needs to move after him.
- The game "The Movements" – standing in half a goren, a friend making motor movement and also in text, the members have to repeat after the movement.
- The "tails" game (also a nimble game)- a friend has a tail, another friend has to grab the tail, another option – all participants have a tail, teach the children, have to grab other people's tails and keep them from grabbing their tails.
- "The vests" – two children wear a vest and receive a cube that can stick to the vest.
For teaching, the children throw the cube at each other in an attempt to get the cube to hit the vest.
Other games:
Parachute activity
- All the kids are holding the parachute around together.
- Shake the parachute, keep a bullet on the parachute while shaking,
- Each child in turn says if the "sea" – calm (shakes the parachute weakly) or turbulent (shakes hard)
- "Cat and Mouse" – The mouse under the parachute, the cat on the parachute, the cat has to grab the mouse, while the children stand around, shaking the parachute.
- "Lollipop" child lies on one side of the parachute, holding a parachute and rolling on the abdomen and back.
- Changing places by name – for instruction, lift the parachute and do not leave hands from the parachute, two children who have called their names, change places under the parachute.
Ball and Cube Games
- "The Cube" – One lays the cube, he must give a motor task to all the children, several times the task will be performed according to the number on the cube.
- "Name game" – a child stands in front of all the children, says the name of a friend, and throws the ball to a friend and the game can be performed even when standing in a circle.
- "Touch the touch"- The children should roll the ball and hurt friends' legs and notice that the ball does not touch their legs (this game can be played with a bell ball).
- Passing a ball from a friend to a friend on the right side of the circle, to the whistle of the student with the ball, changes direction.
- 21 passes between the students without the ball falling.
- "Friend in the middle" – standing in a circle, one standing in the middle, the friends devoting themselves and he needs to grab or touch the ball. Alternating.
- Playing ball over the net (activity for the last few months).
Activity with hoops
- Running games – around the hoops, in the slalom, jumping, inside the hoops.
- "Dry Sea,"
- The circle – the students stand in a circle, everyone has a hoop, the teacher has to turn the hoop, and run to catch the hoop of the friend on the right.
Active vacation games
Flying saucer from sponge, plastic crutches and rope, scotch ball, hoops, skips.
Activities and motor play that require collaboration
- "Train" – each small group stands as a train in a column. For the first whistle, the team goes as a train after the first leading participant. For another whistle, the last participant in the column becomes the first in the column, and so on.
- "Look for the group" – division into small groups, identification and discernment of the group members. For the first whistle, the children disperse in space, each separately, without a group. For a second whistle, search for the teammates and band together to return to the origin group.
- "Tail Game" – Each teacher will receive a glowing colored ribbon, channeling the film as a tail. For the first whistle, the teachers will try to grab as many tails of other teachers as possible. Plus, try not to lose their tails. For another whistle, stop the game. The teacher who managed to collect as many tails as possible is the winner.
