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Snow Man
Students sit in a circle and practice rolling balls of various sizes to classmates. They construct a paper snowman using various sized circles and then name and label different body parts.
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Musical Line Movements
Students work on balance by traveling along lines on the floor; and by starting and stopping a variety of locomotor movements with control.
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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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Simply Move With Me
Students practice moving in a variety of ways to a specific beat while following a leader
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Triangle Tag
Students practice their chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills in small groups.
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Mine Field
Students experience the loss of their sight and develop feelings for those less fortunate than them.
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Ghostbuster Dribble
Students practice dribbling and passing fundamentals using the appropriate cues.
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Scarf Tag
Students who are taggers, on the teacher's "GO" signal, try to tag students with scarves. If a student is tagged, the tagged student must give the tagger ONE scarf in order to resume play.
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Soccer Scatter
Students practice dribbling the ball with his/her feet and passing to a partner.
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Striking Balloons
Students strike balloons with different body parts (elbow, head, knee, wrist, shoulder, etc.) to practice their striking skills.
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Everybody It
Students are in scattered formation within the playing area. The activity begins with all of students being "it". They move about the general space tagging various classmates while avoiding being tagged.
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Fitness Tag
Students 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, students 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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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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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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E.T. Tag
Students interact in a game of tag. When students are caught they must practice waiting skills to be "unfrozen".
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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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Shake It Up!
Pupils shake a bottle of water to a CD of "Twist and Shout". They shake the bottle high, low, right, left, two hands, one hand, under the leg, etc.
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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.