🤸 Animal Move-and-Freeze
Muévete como los animales
🤸 Motor Skills
Emergency
PE.K.1WL.K.1
✨ AI-generated
Objective: Child practices locomotor movements (hopping, crawling, galloping) by imitating animals on their own.
🧺 Materials
None needed — just the two of you.
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Tell your child to move like an animal you (or they) name, all in Spanish.
- Call out one animal at a time and let them move freely for a few seconds.
- Shout '¡Congelado!' (freeze) and have them hold still like a statue.
- Let your child pick the next animal so they lead the play.
- Keep going through 4-6 animals, mixing fast and slow ones.
➕ Extension ideas
- Ask your child to draw their favorite animal after moving and label it in Spanish.
- Add a counting twist: hop like a rabbit while counting 'uno, dos, tres' in Spanish.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Vamos a movernos como los animales! Cuando yo diga un animal, tú te mueves como ese animal. Y cuando yo diga '¡Congelado!', te quedas quietecito como una estatua. ¿Listo? ¡Salta como un conejo!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cómo se mueve este animal, rápido o despacio?
- ¿Qué animal quieres ser ahora?
- ¿Puedes hacer el sonido de ese animal mientras te mueves?
- ¿Cuál animal es tu favorito para moverte?
- ¿Qué animal se mueve como tú cuando estás cansado?
🔑 Vocabulary
- salta — jump
- gatea — crawl
- corre — run
- conejo — rabbit
- tortuga — turtle
- rana — frog
- congelado — frozen
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Do just three animals: rabbit (jump), turtle (slow crawl), frog (big hops).
🚗 Car version
Play with hands only: flap like a bird, wiggle fingers like a snake, name animals in Spanish.
😴 No-energy version
Sit together and let child pick animals while you both make just the sounds and slow arm movements.
🎯 California standards covered
| PE.K.1 | Moving My Body “I can run, jump, hop, and balance while I move my body.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |