Free Brain Break0:37
Shooting Star Reaches: Overhead-to-Floor Reaches Brain Break (0:37)
Shooting Star Reaches is a 37-second Brain Break for kids: overhead-to-floor reaches.
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Energy
- Medium energy
- Length
- 37 seconds
- Category
- Balance / Body Control
- Ages
- Ages 4–6
How to do Shooting Star Reaches
Complete a shorter set of shooting-star reaches from tall standing to palms near the floor.
Why it helps
Provides a quick whole-body mobility and control reset.
What the coach says
The words of this video, from its captions.
Before we run, we have to warm up our entire body. First, shooting star reaches from the cosmic owl. Pretend your feet are stuck in cement. We have to stay perfectly balanced with absolutely no wobbling. Reach for the sky and put both palms flat on the ground. Ready, up and down. One, up and down. Two, up and down. three, up and down, four, up and down, five. Awesome balance!
Framework alignment
- PLAYfun: Balance, Stability & Body Control
- SHAPE: Standard 1 — Develops a variety of motor skills
- Indicator: 1.2.4
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