﻿- In today's lesson, we are going to focus on our body sense, that is our proprioceptive sense or our power sense. And we're going to have a look at how this sense and our movement sense works together to make our bodies strong. 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 nay questions or would like to help tailoring this to your child's needs, then please contact your local therapy service. In today's lesson, we're going to carry on focusing on our body sense, which is our power sense and we're going to play a few more games to see how we can strengthen this amazing sense of our body's. So let's have a look what you will need for today. You are going to need your body, you're going to need a clear wall space, and you are also going to need some help from your parent or carer. So make sure you know where a clear wall space is and then press play and we'll carry on. Great, so our power sense and our movement sense really works together and we know that our power sense, our body sense tells us about how heavy something is, where our body is in space and it also is very closely linked to the same nerves that work with our movement sense. So together they are a very, very powerful team. So let's have a look at how our power sense helps us. So together, they help us to be calm and they also help us to move in a coordinated way. So it means that we don't bump into people or into things. It also means that we can do lots of sports and it help us to do everything in the day really. So when you go to the park, when you go and play with your friends, your movement sense and your body sense are working very closely together. So here's a reminder of all the things that your power sense does. But it only does it with input from your movement sense. So let me show you a couple of things that we're going to start off for today's activity. I'm going to show you how to do a head press and also a wall pushup. I'm going to show you what a head press looks like. So what you need to do is it's best if you sit down to do this. And it's a great little trick, especially when you're feeling a little bit dizzy to quickly do. So what you need to do is you need put both hands on your head like that and now you're just gently going to press down and as you press down, your head is going to try and move up. So watch what I'm doing, I'm going to press down and my head is moving up. And that is a head press. Easy peasy. Now, you can have a go. Okay, so what we're going to do is we're going to pause the video and you're going to now complete the task. So helping to calm your movement sense. Have a go at gently pressing down your head with both your hands and see if you can do a wall press-up as well. So you may need assistance from your parent or carer for this activity. So you've just seen the two videos, one with me showing you how to do the head massage and the head pressing down activity, and you've also seen one of my family members showing you how to do a wall press-up. So once you've finished, press play and we will carry on with this lesson. Great, now we're going to do some popcorn seat games and we're going to pretend to be stuck in the chair. So again, I have asked one of my family members to help me to show what this activity looks like. So let's have a look and then you're going to have a chance to try this out. Let me talk you through the popcorn seat activity and then I'll talk you through the stuck on the chair activity. So for popcorn seat, what you need is you need to put both your hands onto the seat and you're going to hold on, and you're going to push down with your hands, so your arms are going to get straight and you're going to push down all the way until you are able to lift your bottom off the chair. So that is how you do a popcorn chair by pushing down really hard onto the flat surface of the chair so that your bottom lift off the chair. And then you hold that position and then you can rest down. Now, to do a stuck on the chair, what you do again is you take both hands and you put them into the seat, so you hold onto the bottom of the seat, you're grabbing hold of the seat of your chair and now you're going to pull with your arms this time. So you're going to pull so that your body sinks into the chair. And it feels like you are stuck onto that chair with your bottom. So give it a go and then let me know what you think of it. Well done, you have done great in this lesson and I hope that these tricks will really help you to strengthen your body sense and to make movement and joining in everyday activities a bit easier. 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.

Proprioception: Games to help our power sense

In this lesson, we will explore games to strengthen the power sense and learn more about body awareness. Resources provided by University of Gloucestershire (CC BY-NC-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0)

Lesson overview:Strengthening our Proprioception Sense

Core Content

Movement sense: