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26 Aug 2020
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Aug 2020
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Home Exercise for Kindergarten Kids:
A Creative Zoom Program which is full of Laughters, Fun and Sweat!
Face to face lessons have been cancelled for most classes amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online lessons have emerged as the go-to solution for schools looking to resume classes while enforcing social distancing. However, online schooling has been carried out with lots of challenges. The situation for virtual PE kindergarten classes may be even problematic as K1 & K2 kids may have a shorter attention span and demand more peronsal attention and social contact to learn. To tackle such new reality creatively and to deliver the message of the physical and mental health benefits of exercising on a daily basis, EdUHK Sports Council have organized a virtual “Home Exercise Programme” for K1 & K2 kids who study in Sham Shui Po Baptist Church Kindergarten through Zoom meeting. A series of Zoom exercise classes have been conducted which include the warm up with music, simple fitness training, fable storytelling with basic movements and stretching.
Sports Council says that much of what they have done in their online class is the same as when the teachers taught kindergarten at a physical school. "At circle time, we start with a new fable story to motivate kids to tryout exercising by imitating the characters in the story. We still do a lot of hand motions with the storytelling. We have a lot of puppets and sometimes we dress up as characters to draw kids' attention and to sustain their learning interest. Taking “The Boy Who Cried Wolf" as an example, kids are motivated to run in place to imitate the main character to hike and escape from the wolf in the story. Other than the physical practice of kids, we have also fostered their character building and value education to be responsible and be true to others with the storytelling.

Motivating and sustaining kids for home exercise practices and putting life education in practice for kids is never an easy task. Without the active collaboration and support from the parents, 'the learning coaches', the program will never be a success during the critical time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The classes have been ended with laughters, fun and sweat. The EdUHK Sports Council would like to organise more sport events based on these good experiences to cater for different parties in the society.
Home Exercise for Kindergarten Kids Video:
Members of the Program
Students:
Choi Ngai Lam (PE Year 3) | Lee Cheuk Him (SS Year 3) |
Lam Ching Ching (SS Year 3) | Lai Hong Ching (PE Year 1) |
Wong Suet Wing (PE Year 1) |
Consultant: