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Scraping is done with the sticks being scraped together horizontally and sawing is done with the sticks vertically running together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Children may also tap their sticks high in the air to use upper body movements and low to increase recruitment of the lower body muscles.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jumping, skipping, or fast walking can add to lower muscle recruitment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This also teaches coordination and agility because the student is using opposite motions with his sticks and his feet.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Early childhood and music teachers love these sticks because they allow children to learn to keep count and make a beat using their sticks. Student can demonstrate their musical skills by tapping to the beat of a quarter, half, and whole note.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Teachers also like to keep the children kinesthetically engaged and active.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Music is a great tool for children to listen to as they work with their sticks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Children can tap the sticks while practicing the letters to their spelling words or memorizing their math tables.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The kinesthetic movement allows the brain to digest the information in a concrete way. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Students can advanced their skills by having the stick on the finger of the hand and balancing it as they are standing, walking and moving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Children can drop the stick and see if they can catch it before it touches the floor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students can throw the stick to each other and see how far they can move back from each other and still catch the stick.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students can use the stick to bat a ball, control it, and catch a ring in the air.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sticks can also throw rings to knock down hollow objects.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sticks can be set horizontally or vertically and used to teach agility and plyometrics training.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students enjoy being the leader and the other children can mimic the rhythms demonstrated by the student leader.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some activities include trying <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to grab the stick with the dominant and non-dominant hand and <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>acting using your stick by showing what it would look like using a cane, telescope, paddle, sword, baseball bat, flute, conductor’s wand, and hammer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Allow children to come up with their own creative ideas.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Sticks also encourage originality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Using different music also allows children to experience music from different cultures and styles.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a wonderful way for children to experience life by playing along.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Recommended and Suggested Resources:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Jenkins, Ella, <U>Adventures in Rhythm</U>, Smithsonian/Folkways Records, 1989.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Landy, Michael and Joanne, <U>Ready to use P.E.Activities for Grades K-2, </U>Parker Publishing Company: Nyack <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>, 1992.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Lummi Sticks Girl Scouts<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><A href="http://www.scoutinglinks.com/GSRC/game0010.htm"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">http://www.scoutinglinks.com/GSRC/game0010.htm</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Panegyrize, Robert P. and Dauber, Victor P., <U>Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children</U>, Ninth Edition, Macmillion Publishing Company, 1989.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Stewart, Georgiana, <U>Multicultural Stick Fun</U>, Kimbo International, 1992.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></o:p></P> Automatically clean input to optimize for the web. 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