Walking, jumping, hopping….oh my!

As the new school year is upon us, I am teaching, reviewing, and assessing locomotor movements with all Kindergarten through 2nd grade students. These are movements where the body travels through space from one location to another.

Your primary student should be able to tell you the 8 locomotor movements and demonstrate them to you.

They are:

  • walk
  • run
  • hop (ask them how many feet do we hop with)
  • jump (again, ask how many feet do we jump with)
  • gallop
  • side slide
  • skip
  • leap