Introduction - the bamboo eight for focus, balance, concentration...
Author: Karin Stolk-Tangenbergh
Children's practice and mother
Introduction to motor skills eight
This bamboo motorik-8, also called lemniscate, is beautiful to see and can be used in many ways. Since this motorik-8 has been present in my children's practice Bij Kee, it has been used a lot. Children like to play with it between assignments, parents always see it as a challenge and visitors who come in have to try it out...
Method
The method is self-explanatory. Children take the motorik-8 in their hands and place the ball in the middle. They carefully move the motorik-8, causing the ball to move, and they let the ball roll through the path of the 8.
Training with the lemniscate
They train quite a few areas with this while they see it as playing. They train their concentration, but also unknowingly the cooperation of their hands, eyes and brain hemispheres. The ball crosses in front of the body from left to right, which means they have to use and activate both eyes and brain hemispheres.
I use these motor skills eight in practice for focus, balance, concentration, cooperation of the hands, brain hemispheres and eye-tracking movements.
Shape of a lemniscate
The shape, the lemniscate, is infinite, the movement continues. You can also say a sentence as a mantra while rolling and repeat it over and over again.
Material
The motorik-8 is made of bamboo, which is not only nice and light but also an environmentally friendly alternative to wood, because it grows quickly.
Two sides of this lemniscate
The design has been well thought out, this lemnicaat has two usable sides. One side has a number of recesses, these slow down the marble so that it does not go too fast through the bend. The child loses control less quickly and that is certainly useful for beginners but also for young children.
The other side is smooth, which makes the marble go really fast, but you have to steer better to keep a grip on the speed.
Balls
There are three balls included in the colors red, yellow and green, these are the same size. You can of course use one ball, but with two or three a new challenge is quickly found. With other balls, marbles and stones there is of course endless variation.
Variation
For example, you can use this lemniscate not only in width but also in length. Play with it in front of the mirror, where you only look at your reflection, or have something held between you so that you can only look in the mirror!
Moving learning
Also use it to learn while moving, give the children a sum while the marble keeps going round and let them answer while turning, practice those difficult words from another language, or recite a table of multiplication in the rhythm of the movement of the marble, can you do it? You will also notice that the practiced material is remembered even better because you use both hemispheres of the brain.
Advanced Challenges
There are also many variations for advanced players: turn the direction of the ball without losing it, place one side on the table and use one hand to make the ball go round, stand on the wobble board or wobble, on one leg, with one eye closed, with one hand, you name it!
Cooperative game
When the children work in pairs: both hold one side of the motorik-8 and let the ball move smoothly, pass it to each other while the ball continues to move, let the motorik-8 rest only on the (index) fingers while the ball continues to move, there are plenty of variations.
Summary
You understand that I would like to advise everyone to purchase this lemniscate or motorik-8. It is challenging toy, an addition to a (children's) practice, motorically challenging for big and small and also environmentally friendly.
