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until I’m ready, I won’t be long.
d) Ask the children if they have any stories about being asked to wait a minute or
wait a second or a moment?
e) Read the story again.
MINUTES
This section explores the notion of minutes. It consists of 4 suggested activities:
One Minute Song, Resting Heart Rate, Active Heart Rate, and Counting Game.
1. One Minute Song (download song MP3 or use CD track 1)
a) Ask the children to lie down on the floor.
b) Tell them you are going to play a song that lasts exactly one minute.
c) Ask them to listen to the words - there are exactly sixty words in the song (see
appendix 2).
d) Encourage the children to learn the song and sing along with it – as it is used
in the activities to follow.
2. Resting Heart-Rate
a) The children are still lying on the floor from the first activity.
b) Play the One Minute Song again, asking the children to count their heartbeats
during the song.
c) Record the number of heartbeats per minute for each child under the heading
“Resting Heart Rate”.
d) Go on to the next activity.
3. Active Heart-Rate
a) Tell the children they’re going to play air-guitar during a special one minute
punk rock song called Beat the Clock! (download song MP3 or use CD track 2,
lyrics in appendix).
b) Encourage the children to jump up and down and use lots of energy.
c) Repeat the Beat the Clock! song. Provide the children with tennis rackets to
use as guitars or hairbrushes to use as microphones – call for bigger actions,
more vigorous dancing, and lots of jumping up and down.
d) Get the children to count their heartbeat while playing the One Minute Song.
e) Record the results on the white board next to their resting pulse rate recorded
earlier in beats per minute.
f) Ask the children to suggest why their heartbeat got faster. Accept their ideas.
4. Counting Game
a) Form a circle. The person beginning the Clapping-Counting Game points to
any other person in the circle and says “one” and walks to where “one” is
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