The Pose Houses

Around the yard there are six houses (hoops), each home to an animal or object with its pose: cat, dog, cobra, butterfly, tree and mountain. In small groups, children visit the houses and do each pose until the drum sends them to the next.

How to play

1. The teacher places the six hoops with their cards inside and visits each house with the whole group, doing each pose once (3 min).
2. Make groups of four and each group goes to one house (1 min).
3. Do our house's pose; when the drum sounds, move like that house's animal to the next one (5 min).
4. Second round, faster: at each house, the pose lasts as long as five drum beats (4 min).
5. Back in the circle, each group shows their favorite house to the others (2 min).

Rules

• I go to the next house when the drum sounds.
• At each house I look at the card and do its pose.
• My group stays together and nobody gets left behind.

Variations

Adaptations

• Limited mobility: their group moves at their pace, and each house has a card with the seated version.
• Visual impairment: a groupmate holds their hand and describes the card.
• Autism: give them the route drawn with arrows, always in the same order.

Learning goals

• Copy poses from a picture.
• Follow a route and respond to signals.
• Move in small groups.

Equipment for a class of 25

• aros: 6
• tarjetas de posturas: 6
• pandero: 1

Teacher tip

Set the hoops in a circle so the route is obvious and groups don't cross. If it's cold outside, keep the poses short and the travel between houses longer.

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