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Caveman Tag
Students practice fleeing and dodging skills, spatial awareness, some experience with normal tag games.
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Courtesy Flag Tag
Students improve their cardiovascular fitness while practicing good manners.
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Football Frenzy
Young scholars practice throwing and catching a football in a dynamic setting. The quarterbacks throw passes to their receivers. If the receiver catches a pass, then they jog back to their quarterback area and they become a quarterback.
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Disco Dances
Students do the basic steps required in the dance: grapevine (three steps and a touch - side, back, side, touch); and the "funky chicken" (placing your hands under your arms and flapping them (4 Counts) at the same time you click your...
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Titanic Challenge
Young scholars engage in this lively game that helps them develop communication/cooperation skills and strategy development.
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The Old Brass Wagon Hoop Dance
Students learn direction, skipping in rhythm, right side-left side recognition, and cooperation.
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Throw and Catch Tag
Young scholars throw and catch, moving through general space safely amongst others.
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Spring Egg Hunt
Students explore pathways [Curved, Straight, and Zig-Zagged] with 20 Cones, 15 Plastic Eggs [with alphabet letters written on paper inside of egg], 15 jump ropes
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The Launch Board Catch
Students develop catching skills using a launch board and a small ball, beanbag, or Koosh ball.
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Under the Bridge
Students move in general space using your chosen locomotor movement (i.e. walking, skipping, galloping, etc.) If tagged, students must place themselves in push up position, either on two hands and two feet with flat back and bottom on...
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Sink The Ship
Students throw balls using correct overhand technique in a dynamic setting.
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Physical Education Recipes for Success
Young scholars apply math skills to actual situations they may use.
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Shadow Matching
Students pair up with a partner and find a good self space. They choose who "match" who first (i.e., be the "leader"). Standing next to their partner, and only looking at their shadow, each student tries to match their partner
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The Bus
Students must work cooperatively in teams to move a large mat around the gymnasium. This activity focuses on working well together as a group to complete a task.
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Fun Through Fitness Day
Learners engage in an entire morning of physical fitness activities called Field Day. Events such as dashes, water relays, hoop pass and obstacle course are some of the ideas.
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Human Obstacle Course
Students are in a group - half of them be an obstacle and half be moving around them, and then they switch. This engaging game promotes lots of movement.
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Four Corner Warm-Up
Pupils number themselves off and when the music starts #1 leads their favorite exercise 1NULL, then they lead their team into a lap around the gym. Once back to their respective cones #2 is the leader leading their favorite exercise and...
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Throw to the Cone
Young scholars practice throwing to a moving target and increase their facility with accurate throwing by playing this game.
