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Jumping Numbers
Young scholars practice jumping with a two foot take-off and a two foot landing using the given cues.
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Number Jump
Learners practice addition and subtraction skills while practicing jumping rope. They must jump rope using a variety of basic rope jumping skills and add and subtract in their heads.
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Video Game Treasure Hunt
Young scholars creatively and safely move through general space, developing their own locomotor movements.
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Gargoyles
Students experience using quick changes of directions and pathways when fleeing from a tagger.
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Simon
Students practice the various springing skills (hop, jump, leap) as well as proper landing techniques.
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Muscle Tag
Students get a yarn ball and find a good self space in the playing area (best designated by cones-NOT the walls of a gym). On the teacher's signal students walk and try to tag anyone and everyone in the area.
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Body Shapes with Stretch Ropes
Students form the body shapes (wide, narrow, rounded, and twisted) while using a piece of equipment.
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Squirrel in a Tree
Students develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around other Students.
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Stepping With The Opposite Foot
Students start to explain what foot they need to step with when throwing a ball.
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The Three Little Pigs
Students practice moving safely through a large area (i.e., without bumping into others).
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Station Cards
Students get to a station where they place a card inside the envelope that is stapled to construction paper. When you want students to move to a different station, hand them a different index card.
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Cool Line
Students learn foot and arm patterns, then sequence those patterns into a line dance.
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Carnival Stations
Students practice tossing, catching, and balancing in a fun, theme-based setting.
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Clothes on the Line
Students creatively move using a variety of non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
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Bounce to Spell
Students are in their own personal space with a playground ball and a partner. They are given a spelling word from their classroom or shoolwide list. They bounce the ball to their partner saying a letter as they pass the ball.
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Simply Move With Me
Students practice moving in a variety of ways to a specific beat while following a leader
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Thanksgiving Stations
Students are assessed in their abilities in three areas--in particular throwing using Fleece balls, Turkey targets (plastic door decorations with a hole cut into it), Stepping stones (Flaghouse catalog), Balloons, Lollipop paddles, and...
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One Step Throw & Catch
Students, in pairs, choose a ball to throw back and forth between them about 9 feet apart (i.e., 3 giant steps). After making a catch both students take one giant step backwards. If a student misses a catch they move one giant step...