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Turkey Hunt Obstacle Course
Students play a game. They will be the turkeys. The rest of the students stand on the basketball court sidelines with yarn balls. They are the hunters. The turkeys try to make it through the forest without getting hit. If they get hit...
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Turkey Hunt Obstacle Course
Learners participate with a fleece ball. Each target can be thrown at only once per round. After the throw the student recovers the ball and moves to the next obstacle. The student puts the fleece ball away, picks up the basketball and...
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Turkey Shoot
Learners play a game. They get some pictures of turkeys (K and 1 teachers usually have some), color and them laminate them. Tape them onto the front of plastic bowling pins or some other object (i.e. liter plastic bottles). You can set...
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Turkey and Indians
Students color pictures and tape one to each side of a piece of cardboard. They line up opposite one another in the middle of the gymnasium about 4 feet apart. Designate each line as one of the groups that corresponds to the pictures on...
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Field Day Water Activities
Students participate in a variety of Field Day Water Activities including: Waterslide:
Cheap Man's Dunking Booth:
Sponge Relay:
Sponge Race:
Water Bucket Relay:
Water relay:
Tug of War:
Squirt bottle race
Water Balloon Smash:
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Soccer #1
Students demonstrate physical skills. They perform a pylon weave, wall pass, and dribbling. Students participate in touch touch passing and mini-games. Students explain the importance of warming-up before participating in physical...
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Toilet Tag
Students play a form of tag. Students who are tagged, kneel on one knee and place their thumb in the air. They are freed when students sit on the knee of the tagged student and pull down the thumb that is in the air.
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Safe Landings
Students practice moving in and out of spaces using a locomotor step. They jump on a given signal and continue moving. Students discuss the need for bent knees and ankles when they land. They demonstrate their unique sequence for the class.
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Physical Education: Games from Australia
Students discover how to play Austrailian warmup games involving footballs. The activities, Steal the Footy, Pick Up, and Lanework, stress teamwork by students. The exercises are designed as warmups for Australian Rules football.
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Physical Education: Kicking in Australian Rules Football
Learners practice kicking skills for Australian Rules Football. the drills are designed to improve ball control, kicking, and marking skills. In pairs. they kick or flip the ball to each other.
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Physical Education: Movement Activities in Australian Rules Football
Students practice movement activities used in Australian Rules Football. In groups, They practice stealing the football from the other group. Students demonstrate handball skills and breakdowns.
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Skipping- Introductory Lesson
Students particpate in an introductory lesson to skipping. They move in and out of spaces, whenever they come to a line on the floor they must jump over it. They repeat the actions just practiced, but they use a jump rope and jump over...
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Sponges Galore
Students complete a sequence of physical activities/challenges involving a sponge such as dropping the sponge and spinning around before catching, dropping the sponge, clap spin and catching the sponge again. These activities can be done...
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Sliding Games (Marbles)
Students play a game of marbles outdoors on an iced area. They begin by playing a warm-up game of tag and proceed to sliding their marbles on an iced surface into holes. They attempt to gain points by sliding the marble into holes of...
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Bean Bag - Throw And Catch
Students carry a bean bag with a teacher specified body part while traveling in and out of designated spaces. They practice tossing and catching the bag while moving and progress to playing catch with a partner.
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The Letter Race
Students practice identifying the letters in the alphabet. They use this activity in phyical education class and run to each letter when they identify it correctly. They also state the name of different objects throughout the room.
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How Tall Is It?
First graders practice measuring different items with different units of measurement. They move from station to station measuring items. They complete a worksheet as they go.
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Shape Hide and Seek
First graders identify different shapes. They participate in a game of hide and seek to find different shapes. They categorize the shapes as well.
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Who's the Boss?
First graders identify their community, state and national leaders. They participate in an activity to explore the roles each of these officials have. They are shown pictures of the leaders as well.
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Math: Counting on Others
Students use counting skills to decide who wins the Classroom Winter Games. They use numeral writing and tally marks to keep score. Students have an opportunity to pretend they are competing for medals in the Winter Games while using...
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Dance
Students participate in different types of dances in which they explore time, action and other elements of dancing. They dance with a group or a partner and explore how to work together.
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Beanbag Tic Tac Toe
Young scholars choose a partner and find a safe space on the floor. They practice the skills of over- and underhand throwing.
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Cooperative Hoops
Students participate in a game similar to musical chairs, but use hoops to walk around while music is playing. When the music stops, students jump inside the nearest hoop.
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Exercise Tag ( a non elimination tag game)
Young scholars scatter and sit in their own personel space. Some of them get foam balls. On the teacher's signal, they play foam ball tag.