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Catching Assessment: Part II
Students are given the opportunity to improve some of their catching skills. They practice catching using the cues of "pinky" fingers together to catch objects below their waist, and thumbs together for catching objects that are above the h
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Exploring Shapes
Students practice moving over shapes they have designed. They work on trying to travel around the shapes while practicing their jumping and landing patterns.
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Partner Tag
Pupils find a partner. After they are with a partner have them find a good self space in the playing area. Identify one student as the chaser and the other as the dodger. After the dodger is tagged, students switch roles.
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Where in the World?
Pupils participate in an activity promoting them to use different balancing skills while they review/learn important facts about each of the continents.
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Follow The Leader - Soca Style
Young scholars participate in a fun and creative experience in dance. This is a great activity for warm-ups, the end of class, all-school assemblies and family nights!
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Fitness Tag
Pupils spread out in general space. Have 2/4 students be the taggers. On the teachers signal the activity starts with the taggers trying to tag the "runners". When taggeg, pupils then go to an area and perform an exercise.
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Bumper Cars
Students gain trust of fellow classmates. They practice cooperation and spacial awareness. They follow directions given to them by others.
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Moving In Unison
Students practice moving in general space successfully (i.e., not bumping into each other and moving to empty space). Teachers may add many different locomotor movements, or increase participants for an extra challenge.
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Math Hook Up
Students practice moving different ways with different locomotor skills. They practice addition and subtraction problems.
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Shoot the Whole Notes
Students practice underhand throwing skills, identify values of musical notes, and add values of notes (adding fractions). students should be familiar with the names of notes and their values in 4/4 time.
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Toad Tag
Students who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
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Excuse Me
Students participate in a game where one student is "the tagger." The tagger holds an object in their hand to signify they are the tagger. They attempt to move through the playing area attempting to tag other players with their beanbag.
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Locomotor / Pathway Card Swap
Students follow instructions on index card with a locomotor skill and pathway written on it, then students follow the cones which mark the boundaries. When music stops switch index cards with another student and go agian.
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Artery Demonstration
Young scholars learn what may happen when they do not eat properly or participate in physical activity regularly
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Coral Reef Choreographic ProjectTo
Students enhance their understanding of how animals function in a habitat.Students are scattered individually and in small groups. About half of students make coral shapes in small groups. The other half of students move like animals in...
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Surfing Warm Up
Students, when the drums are playing, imitate a drummer. When the music changes (drums stop), students imitate a surfer, bending at the knees and moving up and down.
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Parachute - Land and Weather
Students use different parachute activities to study weather and land patterns and formations. Tornados and hurricanes can be discussed as students make large waves (move from very high to very low) that mimmick these two weather...
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Superstar Bowling
Students learn the proper cues of rolling or bowling a ball and at the same time reinforcing cooperation and spelling skills.
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Fifty States Field Day
Students complete a research project regarding a specific state in the United States. They use this information to create a presentation they share with other students. They choose an activity to go with their presentation.
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Throwing and Catching
Students determine if they can recognize and identify a critical element of throwing or catching in a photograph or picture.
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Walk the State Line
Students practice balancing activities while learning the states in the USA.
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Take Five
Students transition from one activity to the other in a quiet and sequential manner. students should have a clear understanding of what the freeze/stop/halt signal means.
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Man From Mars
Students develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around with and from other Students.
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Jumping Numbers
Students practice jumping with a two foot take-off and a two foot landing using the given cues.