First Attempts at Jumping Rope

First graders explore and discuss what physical fitness actually is, its benefits and how to obtain it through a variety of ways. They summarize the five parts of physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance,muscular strength, muscular...

Students practice grade level math skills. In this math instructional activity, students solve math facts on index cards and collaboratively arrange them in numerical order on a jump rope. Correct order earns the team a chance to...

Ribbit! Pre-K and Kindergartens turn into frogs in these fun movement games that have them practicing the motor skills of jumping, landing and transferring weight. A cross between Simon Says and Red Light/Green Light, the teacher gives...

Students rotate between 6 activity stations and discover important facts about famous African Americans. Students find their heart rate, dribble, throw baseballs, jump hurdles and complete a long jump activity while becoming familiar...

Students in the first and second grade classroom takes home the D.A.D. bag. They look inside the bag and there is equipment designed for use with other family members. Students look inside a first grade bag and it contains short jump...

Young scholars practice moving over shapes they have designed. They work on trying to travel around the shapes while practicing their jumping and landing patterns.

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...

Students practice jumping rope with a two foot landing. In this jump rope instructional activity, students pretend to be fishermen using the rope as a fishing pole and their toes as the fish. Explicit step by step instructions are given...

Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.

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