🤸 Balance and Hop Islands
Islas de Equilibrio y Saltos
🤸 Motor Skills
PE.K.1
Objective: Child develops balance, single-leg stability, and hopping control by moving between marked spots.
🧺 Materials
- painter's tape or paper plates
- open floor space
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Place tape Xs or paper plates on the floor a small step apart as islands.
- Have your child hop from island to island so they don't fall in the 'water'.
- Call out how to move in Spanish: hop on two feet, then balance on one.
- Ask your child to freeze and balance on one foot while you count to three.
- Make the islands a little farther apart as they get more confident.
➕ Extension ideas
- Add a number to each island and count in Spanish as they hop.
- Try hopping backward or hopping only on one foot between islands.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
El piso es agua y las islas son los platos. Salta de isla en isla para no caerte. Ahora párate en un solo pie y mantén el equilibrio mientras cuento: uno, dos, tres. ¡Salta y gira, no te caigas!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Puedes saltar con los dos pies juntos?
- ¿En qué pie te gusta más pararte?
- ¿Cuántos saltos hay hasta la última isla?
- ¿Qué pasa si te caes al agua?
🔑 Vocabulary
- salta — jump
- párate — stand
- equilibrio — balance
- gira — spin
- brinca — hop
- cae — fall
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Set out three plates and hop between them while you call 'salta' and 'párate'.
🚗 Car version
Play 'balance the head' by sitting tall and holding still on the count of 'uno, dos, tres'.
😴 No-energy version
Sit and balance a small toy on one knee, then the other, saying 'equilibrio' each time.
🎯 California standards covered
| PE.K.1 | Moving My Body “I can run, jump, hop, and balance while I move my body.” |