Video: Strengthening our proprioception sense

﻿In today's lesson, we're going to find out more about our power sense that sense that's called the proprioceptive sense. We're going to play some more games to find out what it means when our power sense is really doing a lot of hard work like drumming and doing some other games. So come and join me, and we are going to go on a bit of a journey to find out about our power sense. We, as therapists have tried to think of the best way to continue to support children, young people, and their families. We will be exploring topic areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. Each lesson will have ideas and activities that can be carried out at home or in school. This information is to be used alongside any specific strategies or resources which have been given by your child's school or therapist. If you have any questions or would like help tailoring this to your child's needs, then please contact your local therapy service. Proprioception is our power sense. And today we're going to learn a little bit more about it. We're also going to do quite a few games that will strengthen your power sense. Before today's lesson, you're going to need some pots, some cardboard boxes, a wooden spoon, a metal spoon, and also a balloon or some kind of light ball, like a spongy one would work really well. So pause the video here to collect everything that you need for today's lesson. And once you've gathered everything together, press play and resume the lesson and we'll carry on with it. Brilliant. So just to remind you what our power sense is, they are all these little nerve messengers in our joints and our muscles that tell our brain about how heavy something is and where our body is in space. So we going to have a look at some of the force or the heaviness that is involved in our power sense today. So let's play a game to find out a little bit more. In this game, and we're going to do some drumming. Now I know we've done this in another activity to listen, but today we going to do a similar game, but this involves how heavy we can kind of pound on the drum kits. So use the pots and cardboard boxes as a drum kit, and you can play along to your favourite song and be the drummer, trying out different rhythms and playing it really loud. or really softly. And ask your parent or carer to help you find some calming or focusing music. And then something else that you can try is you can maybe if you have got a speaker, try and see if you can put your hand close to the speaker, and you will feel that vibration of the sounds that are playing. And these vibrations is also to do with our proprioceptive sense, and it helps our bodies and to know where we are, and where we are in space. So have a go at the drumming game, and also maybe if you can, have a speaker around to listen to and feel that vibration. And once you've finished, then press play again, and then we'll carry on with the lesson. Right, well done. Are you ready for another game? Let's find out a little bit more. In this game, we are going to use a balloon to move across the room. And the purpose of this game is to find out a little bit more about our power sense, and about how it feels to be kind of finding out about our body in space. So the challenge here is to ask your parents to carer to join in. And you're going to move the balloon or the ball across the room without using your hands. So you can use any other part of your body to hold the balloon. You can use your chin, you can use your knees, you can use your elbows, to kind of tuck it next to your body. You can also move in different ways. You can crawl, you can jump, you can gallop, just what you want to do. So try out different ways to move across the room. So you could have one person, your parent or your carer to call out what you need to do and you then have to figure out what you going to do. So it's a little bit like that twister again, where your parents can say, right, hold the ball under your chin. So then you have to find a way of how to do that. Have fun playing this game, pause the video here to complete the task. And when you finished playing the game, please press play and then we'll carry on with the lesson. Brilliant. Let's just remind ourselves this power sense of ours, what it helps us with. We have just been doing crawling, jumping, galloping . We've also used different parts of our bodies to hold onto that balloon. And we've also played on the drum kits. We have worked out that we can use a lot of force or a little bit of force when we do drumming. And all of these things is done by our power sense. So our power sense helps us to move around, it helps us to walk through doorways and not bumping into anything, it helps us to walk up and down the stairs, and it helps not to trip over. One thing that's really important about our power sense it really helps us to stay calm. And it also helps us to fall asleep. So there's a lots of things that this power sense is very, very important for all of us. They are a few more things that you can do today. With your parents or carer see what you can find to pull, push, or carry. Share your work with Oak National. If you'd like to please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

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