by Neetu | May 29, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Movement skills/concepts
Jumping for distance, in varying directions and levels, creative ways, and with others.
Set-up
Children are spread out in a defined grass or hard surface area.
Activity
Who can jump …? (or Can you jump …?)
- as quietly/loudly as possible
- forwards/backward
- from a small crouch
- very fast/slow
- in a straight line
- like a giant/frog
- as if you are on ice
- making a circle
- with a partner
- with legs and arms stiff
- keeping your arms out from your side
- with your legs apart
- and land with your feet apart
Variations
Add stationary objects: Can you jump … over a box, across a rope, through a hoop?
Combine actions: Can you jump quietly while making an ‘O’ shape?
Jump your own height: Measure your height on the ground using a marker. Try jumping in different ways to reach your height.
by Neetu | May 29, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Movement skills/concepts
Walking to a rhythm and working with others (relationships).
Set-up
- Marching music.
- A defined hard or grass area with an end line and a baseline.
- Children in pairs: partners stand at opposite sides of the area, facing the end line. A caller stands on the baseline.
Activity
Caller: Come down the centre in twos.
Each child marches to meet their partner at the end line. As a pair meets, they turn and march down the centre of the area to the baseline.
Caller: Two right and two left.
The first pair turns to the right, the second to the left, and so on.
Caller: Come down the centre in fours.
When the two lead pairs meet at the end line, they walk four abreast down the centre.
Caller: Four right and four left.
Children divide again, with four children to the right and four to the left.
Caller: Come down the centre in eights.
When lines of four meet again at the end line, they join together to form a line of eight abreast.
Variations
Work in fours: Come down the centre in fours, separate into pairs, form arches or go ‘over and under’.
by Neetu | May 29, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Movement skills/concepts
Walking to different rhythms, walking on the spot, along a line, changing direction, and relationships (with others).
Set-up
Hard or grass area with lines or markings, rhythm instrument(s). Children stand scattered along a line.
Activity
Children walk on a line and change direction when they come to an intersection. When walking on a line they may meet up with someone coming towards them on the same line. If so, children walk on the spot and give partner a ‘high five’, turn and go back the way they came. Have different beats or rhythms to walk to.
Can you see …?
- pivoting on the ball of the foot when turning
- head up
- walking tall
- swinging arms waist high
Variations
Follow the leader: In pairs, one person (the leader) calls out commands, e.g. ‘Quick march’ (step out), ‘Mark time’ (march on the spot), ‘About turn’ (turn 180 degrees). Leaders are switched on ‘About turn’.
by Neetu | May 29, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Movement skills/concepts
Walking to a changing rhythm, walking on the spot, stopping on the beat, and relationships (with others).
Set-up
- Rhythm instrument(s).
- Children spread out in a hard or grass area.
Activity
Children practice the following activities:
- coach/teacher beats out a set number of beats, with children marching on the spot to a rhythmical pattern and starting and stopping in time with the beat, e.g. − 1 2 3 4 5 6− Start L, R, L, R, L, R Stop. Repeat.
- intersperse walking on the spot with moving
- continue as above, changing direction each time
- work in pairs, with one partner as the leader, change when walking on the spot, clap own rhythms
- ‘lift and clap’ – lift one knee up and clap underneath, repeat with the next leg
- try ‘lift and under’ (clap under the bent knee), ‘lift and over’ (clap over the bent knee)
- try walking while gently slapping hands on the top of knees
- click fingers beside lifted knee, to the call of ‘lift and click left; lift and click right’
- combine various hand actions (e.g. one clap under left knee and one clap over the right knee).
Variations
Introduce group work: In pairs or small groups, create and march to own beat/rhythms.
by Neetu | May 29, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Movement skills/concepts
Creative Walking, walking in different ways with expression (space and body awareness).
Set-up
A variety of music (e.g. classical, pop, children’s). Children are spread out in a defined hard or grass area.
Activity
Ask children to walk to a variety of music, moving in the way it makes them feel, using arms and facial expressions to help. Ask children to walk like they are:
- in a graveyard at night
- walking a dog
- wearing a tight miniskirt
- wearing gumboots
- in thick mud
- moving along a narrow ledge
- happy, sad, excited, angry
- a toddler with nappies on – whoops!
- a waiter carrying a tray of drinks
- a woman in high-heeled shoes
- someone who has won Lotto
- someone who has a hole in their pants!
Variations
Vary equipment: Use ribbons, scarves, poi, or ribbon balls.
Create a movement story: For example, base it on the storybook, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
