Warm Up: All grades
Continuous Jog
To prepare for upcoming mile run testing (grades 2-5), all grades complete a continuous jog warm-up. Since we don't have an integrated scoreboard in our Haisley gym, we use a projector to put one onto the wall. This shows students exactly how long we have left to jog/speedwalk/run. Students are encouraged to try to jog/run the whole time, taking speedwalking breaks as needed during the activity. The length of time depends on the class length and age level.
Mile run testing will begin in the next couple of weeks, weather and sidewalk track conditions permitting! Please have your student dressed appropriately for outside time each day - particularly morning classes. Thank you!!
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| Fifth graders: continuous jog warm-up |
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| Kindergarteners warming up |
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Grades 3-5:
Flickerball is a game usually played with a football (3rd and 4th use a foam sphere ball, 5th uses a foam football), with scoring at the two main basketball hoops. We play with the same setup as Ultimate (Frisbee), so this is great follow-up game! Students have enjoyed this game, and the competition. We mix up the teams each time, so it's a new game/competition each class period. Teams accrue points each time they play, playing a different opponent each game during the class.
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| Flickerball Rules |
Depending on how the game is going, we sometimes modify one rule: dropped/incomplete pass --> turnover. In classes having difficulty completing passes, we modify to this: if the intended receiver touches the ball in any way, it's that receiver's ball. If they totally miss it, it's a turnover. This allows teams having difficulty completing passes to still progress and enjoy the game, while maintaining safety (preventing the loose ball from being chased by all players). This is more common in third grade games, but can happen in fourth and fifth grade, too.
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| Game order - keeps teams playing new opponents. Each game is 2-3 minutes long. Teams are new each class, so it's never a repeated game or matchup. |
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| Fourth Graders |
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| Fifth graders |
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| Fifth graders |
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| Fifth graders |
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| Third and fourth graders |
Grades Y5, K, 1, & 2:
Directions, levels, and pathways is the basis of movement and space awareness.
- Directions: Forward, backward, and sideways. This is the direction of your body, not the direction your body is going (east, west, north, south, counter/clockwise, right, left).
- Levels: Standing = high level, knees bent = medium level, on the floor = low level.
- Pathways: Imagine walking through a surface covered with snow. Your footprints are the pathway you took. Pathways can be any shape, anything!!
We began talking about directions, and then students explored with movement in different directions on different body parts. For example, prompts included: "Try moving forward only on your hands and feet. Try moving backward on your belly/front. Move sideways on three body parts only." After exploring these directional movements, students then made up their own "directions story". They created a story with a beginning, middle, and end -- with a movement and direction for each part. Volunteers shared their story with the class. We then extended these exploratory movements and movement stories to include pathways, and then levels.
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| Kindergarteners: exploring directions and pathways |
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| Young Fives: exploring forward movement on their front |
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| Second graders: exploring backward movements |
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| Second graders: exploring sideways movements |
