14/11/2025
Pose of the Week - Orange Term Week 2 => 🐈⬛CAT🐈⬛
This week, Tatty Bumpkin has been off visiting to find out what jobs people do, and we squeezed so many developmental areas into the sessions:
When driving the big red bus, we sang 'the wheels on the bus' prompting memory skills and vocabulary, walked on our bottoms requiring concentration, co-ordination and core muscles and glutes.
When helping the farmer prepare his field for sowing seeds, we rolled over and over, which, whilst being great fun is also a complex movement skill, strengthening gross motor skills and promoting bilateral co-ordination between different parts of the body working together. The vestibular sense and inner ear balance are stimulated while aiding sensory motor integration that allows children to perform actions instinctively.
To learn more about the importance of babies and children rolling, and how it can affect their future development both physically and cognitively, see this article: https://parentingall.com/rolling-important-developmental-milestone/ #:~:text=This%20significant%20milestone%20stimulates%20the%20vestibular%20system%20and,between%20different%20parts%20of%20the%20body%20working%20together
On our adventure, we met Tatty Bumpkin's friend CAT, but she dreamed of having adventures instead of actually having them. In CAT pose we:
🐈⬛ stretched our back and strengthened our core muscles in Cat pose
🐈⬛ worked on balance as we waved our paws in Cat pose
🐈⬛ concentrated on actions using both sides of the body, by waving our paw and tail simultaneously
