About:

This takes the basic patterning of 'Pass A Bean Bag Hand Over Hand' and by adding the second Bean Bag expands complexity and integration with more of the sensory motor system.

Purpose:

Learn to share in a joint rhythm.

Use the sense of the embodied sense of stable pulse to expand a students capacity to perceive and act.

This exercise further helps students to differentiate and integrate their right and left arms and hands.

Student may differentiate and integrate their arms and hands doing this exercise alone, but the added load of coordinating with another takes some of their processing energy.

This exercise helps a studnet to develop the ability to coordinate and collaborate with an other person.

Directions:

When teaching use as few words as possible, students will learn most deeply with their seeing, hearing and feel.

The trick or knack in doing this is in the sequences and cues.

Doing simultaneous passes is difficult and often overwhelming to start.

Level 1: Pass one bean bag at a time. Synchronize the clap.

Teacher and student each have a bean bag in their right hand.

Teacher cues the student to pass their bean bag into the teachers hand. This cue can be given by the teacher by gesturing and wiggling hiser fingers.

Then the teacher places hiser bean bag into the students left hand.

Then both the student and teacher simultaneously clap their bean bags into their own right hand.

Again the student passes first, the teacher passes second. Teacher and student clap at the same time.

Level 2: Pass the two bean bags simultaneously. Synchronize the clap.

After repeating this about 3 to 6 times, the student should look more integrated and the student and teacher have establish more of a sense of flow.
Now the student and teach can pass both bean bags simultaneously and clap simultaneously.

Be sure to celebrate the completion. If you didn't complete this yet, celebrate the effort and progress made so far.

Glitches:

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Level 3: Pass Behind the Back

This is best done by instructing through gesture and not using words.

Teacher and student face each other palms up. Teacher places bean bag in students hand right hand. (best to place it in students dominant hand.)

Teacher indicates to student to pass the bean bag into the teachers left hand.

The teacher passes the bean bag behind hiser back into hiser own right hand.

The teacher passes the bean bag in to the student's left hand.

The student passes the bean bag behind their back into hiser right hand.

Glitches:

• Student receives the bean bag then passes it to hiser other hand in front of the body rather than behind hiser back.
1. Teach student to grasp the bag with all their fingers, not just lay it on a flat palm
2. Let's play a little game. I want you to hold onto the bean bag. I am going to try to pull it out of your hand. I want you to keep me from pulling it out of your hand."
• Reaches to receive the bean bag  passes the bean bag with the wrong hand. (usually hiser dominant hand.)
1. Point to or touch the hand that they are to use. (best to give these instructions non verbally or add words to the non verbal cues.)
• Student slams the bean bag into the teachers hand
1. Take Over the Problem. Emphasis on what its like to receive a pass that is too hard.
2. Let the student know that it was too hard. "oww, I want you to be more gentle". Then teacher puts bean bag into the students hand modeling the right amount of velocity and pressure. "Pass it to me this hard, no harder."

Level 3: On Balance Boards

Once students can effectively do Pass a Bean Bag Hand Over Hand, keeping the pattern and rhythm, have them do the game while standing on balance boards.

Level 4: Calling Switch - Teacher Calls Switch

To switch directions, clap the bean bag at the center line of the body, keep it in the same hand, them pass it now going in the opposite direction. Teacher can say "switch" as they receive the bag before the clap.
The 'switch' can also happen behind the back. Clap the bean bag behind the back put keep it in the same hand. Pass in it going in the opposite direction.

Level 5: Calling Switch - Student Calls Switch

The purpose of the student call 'switch' is having them learn to give a timely cue.

Level 5: with Steps

See 'Pass Two Bean Bags Hand Over Hand with Steps

Neuroscience:

[ ? tactile information - ashley monteque, Touching]

Organizing power of rhythm. Rhythm comes from the brain stem.- neurologically it orders other sensory motor processes.

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