Children's morning exercises for a preschool child to music

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Morning workout for children is extremely important, but underestimated by their parents. Physical culture general strengthening exercise activates not only muscle tone, but also the brain, helping to wake up and include all organs in the work of the day. After sleep, all body functions are slowed down, breathing is shallow, metabolic processes, as well as blood pressure, are reduced, muscles are relaxed, the nervous system is inhibited, blood vessels are half open. In this state, it is not easy to master a new topic in the garden, or remember a poem, or even maintain an interesting conversation with friends. Just 10 minutes spent on motor exercises in the morning will bring the muscles into the right tone, the nervous system into harmony, and fill the whole body with vigor.

The importance of morning exercises for a child

Warming up in the morning is a necessary part of the hygiene of the physical body,which, like brushing your teeth, you need to teach a child from early childhood. When you regularly perform a certain set of kneading workouts, a number of quality-of-life improving changes are necessary for the he alth of a growing body, because exercising in the morning:

• mobilizes the child's attention;
• strengthens discipline;
• develops the hygiene habit of exercising for life;
• increases the performance of the child - both mental and physical;
• increases activity;
• the child is less prone to painful and depressive conditions;
• improves sleep, appetite;
• promotes he alth.

Mechanism of action of motor gymnastics

Our body consists of 60% of the muscles that must function regularly. Joints need to rotate in full. Everyday muscular work contributes to the development of the brain, improves the functions of the cardiovascular and especially the respiratory system, increases energy production and heat generation. By accustoming your body to systematic motor activities every day, the child will avoid the development of hypodynamia and hypokinesia in the future. Those who have neglected the rules of physical he alth hygiene since childhood suffer from similar diseases of a decrease in motor and muscle activity.

In proof of the great harm of hypodynamia, scientists conducted experiments with animals: they immobilized rats for 1 month - then only 60% of them survived.

In the process of following the morning exercise routine forthe child, plus all the positive aspects, the correct posture is formed, physical qualities develop. The better the growth and development of the child, the higher the indicators of his mental performance.

Why you need to exercise in the morning

From a state of rest to a state of excitation, the nervous system passes due to external factors and signals from internal organs. The effectiveness of the awakening of the central nervous system depends on the number and intensity of excitatory signals. External stimuli can be music, bright light, especially natural sunlight, a stream of refreshing air from an open window. Internal signals come from skeletal muscles, skin - during water procedures, massage or doing awakening morning exercises.

The essential elements of morning exercises for children include a warm-up - muscle and joint, water procedures, breathing exercises, corrective exercises to form the arch of the foot and posture. Morning exercise is a versatile sports and he alth-improving process that systematically strengthens the child's body.

How to do morning exercises

A few minutes of invigorating exercise includes a warm-up, general strengthening exercises, then running or jumping and final procedures - dousing, rubbing. It is better to start the warm-up with walking, sipping, simple dance movements, breathing exercises. Then the rotation of the joints, tilts, turns, lunges, kneading the muscles of the neck and upper shoulder girdle.

General strengthening morning workoutare performed in the following sequence: the beginning is work for the muscles and joints of the arms, shoulder girdle, legs. Exercises are performed from different starting positions of the body: standing, sitting, lying (on the back, on the stomach).

At the end of gymnastics, it is useful to do some breathing exercises that will calm the child.

The role of music in morning exercises

When performing morning exercises, musical accompaniment occupies a special place. Exercises to music increase the expressiveness of the movements performed and contribute to the friendly coordination of the movements of all participants in the exercise. Music increases the impact on the body of all groups of selected exercises.

The most suitable musical accompaniment for morning exercises to the music will be only what children like - simple familiar children's songs, under which the kids are in a good mood and want to get involved in the charging process themselves. Do not set the volume to maximum, even if the selected songs are favorites for babies.

Game exercise for children 2 years old

At this age, morning exercises for a child are aimed at gradually developing the habit of waking up with mom in the morning with the help of a warm-up. It is better not to dress the baby for charging, barefoot, within 5-7 minutes to help him warm up, wake up, smile. Morning exercises for children 2 years old include:

• walk;
• jumping;
• tilts;
• squats;
• a few breathing exercises;
• game elements where the babyimitates a bird, flying on an airplane, washing a cat, dancing a hare, frog jumping.

You can use a ball, jump into a circle, walk along a thorny path. Bringing in a game with jokes and sentences helps the baby to get involved in the process of general developmental exercises more easily. At the same time, the mother will help the baby develop not only muscles and ligaments, but also speech, thinking, attention, memory.

Filled with vivacity from the age of 3

Together with mom, to funny songs, kids do exercises with pleasure. Morning exercises for children 3 years old begin with walking around the room waving their arms or catching up with their mother, which especially sets the baby up for further exercises.

After walking exercise on the exercise mat.

Lay the baby on the tummy and, showing by example, raise the upper body with outstretched arms - 5-10 times. Strengthening the back muscles.

Now the baby is on the back and the mother holds his legs, and the baby first raises the upper body several times, then raises the legs vertically. Strengthening the abdominal muscles.

Invite the baby to crawl under a rope (or rope) stretched at a height of 25 cm, then jump over it from above.

If there is a wall ladder, it is very useful to just climb up and down it several times.

Morning exercises for children 5 years old

For 4- and 5-year-olds, you can increase the charging time up to 15 minutes. At this age, children are already able to hear and do what they ask or show. Start offmorning exercises for children 4 and 5 years old should be from walking, then move on to playing jumps - bunnies, balls, squirrels, a bear cub or a giraffe on toes with an outstretched neck. Then do exercises to strengthen the muscles of the legs, arms, back and abs.

Walking can not only start exercising, but also finish it - to calm the kids who have played out. Walking is necessary to prevent the development of flat feet. Walking should be alternated as follows: normal walking, on toes, on heels, on the inner edges of the feet, on the outer edges of the feet, and so the whole complex 5-7 times. It is useful to alternate the speed of walking - from slow to fast and vice versa. When walking, it is important to keep your head straight, do not shuffle your feet, swing your arms rhythmically and breathe through your nose.

For five-year-olds, walking with high knees can be introduced, imitating a prancing horse, an important heron, or steps in deep snow.

Jumps try to perform first on two legs, on one, in place and moving forward and backward, right and left, in a circle, jump over a stick, cubes, jump into a hoop and jump out of it. Jumping can be alternated with half squats and walking.

Important to remember

Intensive exercise and musical accompaniment should not overexcite the kids - this leads to fatigue of the child and a decrease in appetite.

If the baby feels bad - do not insist on charging, maybe it's better to just play with him and then wipe him with a damp towel for general cheerfulness.

The main thing in accustoming to the dailyCharging is the parent's own example of exercising with their baby every day.

In daily morning exercises, it is necessary to introduce breathing exercises that increase the body's immunity.

Morning exercises for children to children's music should bring the baby only positive emotions, inspiring him for an interesting day.

It is from preschool age that it is necessary to develop a he althy habit of doing daily exercises.