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Spaceship Tag
Students understand personal and general space by playing Spaceship Tag. Students get a "spaceship," which will be their own personal space. While in their "spaceship," they will not be allowed in any other student's personal space.
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Hospital Tag
Students participate in a game of tag in which they must perform a variety of activities to be unfrozen after being tagged. They use a variety of locomotor skills while moving around the play area.
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Four Corners Locomotion
A simple P.E. activity will get young athletes running, jumping, hopping, skipping, and crabwalking! These locomotor movement exercises are a great way to build up aerobic endurance. Your learners will ask you to play this game again and...
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State Partners
Students practice locating the 50 states on the US map, and move as a "team" throughout the general space.
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Monet's Magical Garden
Students study classic paintings by masters like Monet. In this art history lesson, students listen to the story Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and sing flower songs with the rest of their class. Students examine the painting The...
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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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Spell Race
Young scholars work on their spelling skills and word recognition skills while using different locomotor movements.
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Literacy: Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth
Students explore language arts by analyzing a children's book in class. In this vocabulary lesson, students read the book Slowly, Slowly, Slowly... by Eric Carle. Students identify the characters, setting and plot of the story before...
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Animal Actions
First graders act out a story. In this animal actions lesson, 1st graders listen as a story is being read and performs movements to represent the animals described.
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Four Corners Locomotion
Students participate in warm-up activities before physical education class. They read the activities from card that are set up in the four corners of the room.
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"It's the Great Pumpkin" Game
Students demonstrate the ability to perform a variety of locomotor movements and body shapes. The student book "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is used with this lesson.
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Frog Pond
Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.
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Locomotor Hello's
Students play a musical movement game in order to explore self space and general space using a variety of locomotor movements.
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Witches Brew
Students reinforce AB patterns taught in the classroom and practice locomotor movements. They cut out and laminate 20 of each of the following Halloween items: bats, ghosts, Frankenstein faces, spiders, Jack-O¿¿¿-Lanterns, witches...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Animal Antics
Students get moving in this activity. For this early childhood music and movement lesson plan, students develop their listening, gross motor, and language skills as they imitate animals.
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Movement Sequences
Learners participate in balancing and locomotor rolls. They work with a partner to see if their actions are smooth. They collaboratively create a new sequence as partners using the learned actions.
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Skipping Through Numbers
Students identify numbers 1-10 and place them in the correct order. They practice different locomotor movements and move out into the general space as directed (skip, hop, gallop, slide, etc.) and return with one card. They place the...
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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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Follow the Leader Fitness Jog/Walk
Students demonstrate the fun of jogging/walking in a creative way, work on pacing. They work cooperatively in groups.Students begin by following the teacher and later after they become comfortable and get to be leaders themselves.
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Locomotor Change Tag
Students are in scattered formation within the playing area. The identified chasers each have a foam ball. On the signal they chase using a locomotor movement. When tagged a students changes movement.
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Clothes on the Line
Learners creatively move using a variety of non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
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Little Sliders
Second graders travel though general space using correct form for the locomotor movements of walk, jog, jump, skip, hop, gallop, and slide.
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Giving an Outdoor Plan
Students utilize their acting skills to put on an impromptu play based on a book. In this performance art lesson, students read Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina and discuss how the story could be told through human action. Students...
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