by Neetu | May 27, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Aim
Work on developing hand/eye coordination, control, and aerobic endurance
Equipment Required
Cones, 1 Noodle & Noodlette per student ( Balloon)
Play Area Set-Up
- Create boundaries for a large activity area with large cones.
- Each player will have a hockey stick (noodle) and a hockey puck (noodlette).
Activity Description –
Warmup Activity – THROW AND GO :
Each student will need a noodlette for this activity. Starting on one side of open space, students will practice their throwing technique by throwing the noodlette across space. When the noodlette lands on the floor, they will pick it up and continue throwing until they have made it across. Students should be focused on demonstrating the proper technique for throwing (underhand or overhand) throughout this warm-up activity.
Main Game – Noodle Golf
Divide the students into 4-5 groups who would line up half on either end of the play area. The front person (wearing a band or a pinni) in each team from one end of the play area starts striking the noodlette using the noodle in the direction of his/her team standing on the other side of the play area. When the noodlette lands on the floor, they will pick it up and continue striking until they have made it across to the other end teammate. Hands over the noodle and noodlette to the front person in the lineup and moves/herself to the last in the line. The process is repeated at both ends until the first person wearing the band or the pinni reaches back to its starting end and position
by Neetu | May 27, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Aim
- Keep the ball noodlette for maximum possible time till it hits the floor
- Understand self-space while striking with hand or noodle (ground striking)
Equipment Required
1 Noodlette & 1 Noodle per student, 1 Spot Marker per student, Hoops
Play Area Set-Up
- Create boundaries for a large activity area with large cones.
- Each player will have a hockey stick (noodle) and a hockey puck (noodlette).
Activity Description –
Warmup Activity – NOODLE HANDBALL
- Each student will need a noodlette for this activity.
- Starting on one side of open space, each student will attempt to paddle their noodlette with their hands flat across space.
- The object is to keep the noodlette in the air while moving forward toward the other side of the space.
- Students must keep the noodlette away from their bodies while striking it with either hand.
- If the noodlette falls to the ground, pick it up, and continue.
Main Activity – NOODLE HOCKEY
- Each player will have a hockey stick (demi-noodle) and a hockey puck (noodlette). Students will practice moving their puck around the playing area while developing their hand/eye coordination and aerobic endurance.
- Place spot markers or cones on the floor as goals and allow students to score points while they move their pucks.
- Remind students of the proper way to hold a hockey stick
- Keep their knees bent while moving to keep from injuring their back muscles.
by Neetu | May 27, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Aim
- Experiment with different ways of tossing and then catching a noodle
Equipment Required
1 noodle per student
Play Area Set-Up
- Create boundaries for a large activity area with large cones.
- Scatter spot markers throughout the area to create a home base for each student.
- Each student gets a noodle.
Activity Description
Activity 1: Drop & Catch
Show and tell the students how to hold the noodle straight up and down, drop it, and catch it after it bounces (this is tricky too!). Emphasize being in control
Challenges: Increase the speed of dropping by increasing the drop height.
Activity 2: Toss & Catch
Show and tell how to toss the noodle in the air (emphasize on keeping it straight up) and catch it with both hands.
Challenges: Start by keeping the throw low, then medium-high and then higher
Emphasize being in control of the noodle throw and not to trespass others personal space
Activity 3: Horse Shoe catch & Toss
A partner game where one student holds the noodle-making a
Horse Shoe shape by bending the noodle; the other students throw the ball towards the student holding the noodle who tries to catch the ball by creating an appropriate gap while holding the noodle in the Horseshoe shape
Reverse Horseshoe Catch & Toss – Repeat the exercise by reversing the horseshoe shape
NOTE: Remind students NOT to excessively bend the noodles.
by Neetu | May 27, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Aim
- The use of a soft body touches on the noodle in order to keep it in personal space.
- Understand the concept of good balance
- Perform locomotor skills and movements safely with balance
Equipment Required
1 noodle per student, 1 spot marker per student
Play Area Set-Up
- Create boundaries for a large activity area with large cones.
- Scatter spot markers throughout the area to create a home base for each student.
- Each student gets a noodle.
Activity Description
- Revise the concept of personal space and Reemphasize on working in personal space
- Ask the students what “balance” is. Tell them a good balance with a noodle is when you can count slowly to three.
- Demonstrate how to balance a noodle with the end of it on your open hand while counting softly and slowly to three. One by one have the students get a noodle.
- Have students try to balance on their Hand, on Palm, on fingers only, on Three fingers, on Two fingers and finally on one finger
- Lead the students through the number of other balance as mentioned below using different body parts:
- Head
- Forehead
- Thigh
- Back of Neck
Challenges: Have them pick the balance activity which they find most comfortable and do it for 5 seconds by making them count from one to five
by Neetu | May 27, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Aim
- Use of soft touches on the noodle in order to keep it in personal space.
- Able to understand and demonstrate positions & movements using correct vocabulary
Equipment Required
1 noodle per student, 1 spot marker per student
Play Area Set-Up
- Create boundaries for a large activity area with large cones.
- Scatter spot markers throughout the area to create a home base for each student.
- Each student to get a noodle
Activity Description
Revise the concept of personal space and Reemphasize on working in personal space
Activity 1: Make a Bridge
Show and tell how to make a bridge over their noodle. Have them make their bridges wide, narrow, high, low, with only one hand, with only one foot, etc
Activity 2: Noodle push-ups
Have the student do push-ups over the noodle and try to get as low as the noodle on the floor
Activity 3: Noodle Sit-ups
Have them do sit-ups holding noodles with both hands. Have them try to touch their knees with the noodle when they are moving up. The teacher should ensure they are doing sit-ups correctly and not hurting their back
Key Teaching points: Explain to the students how exercising their arms will make them stronger and their muscles bigger.
