Jumping and Landing Softly on Two Feet
Children practise jumping with both feet and landing quietly with bent knees, first on the spot and then forward onto a paper spot. They finish by watching a partner and…
Children practise jumping with both feet and landing quietly with bent knees, first on the spot and then forward onto a paper spot. They finish by watching a partner and…
In this 35-minute grade 4 outdoor lesson, small teams form passing chains and leapfrog a bean bag across the field, then the whole class tries to beat its own combined…
Students learn to find their own pulse, count their resting heart rate, then do one minute of exercise and measure how quickly their heart rate rises and recovers. They practise…
Children learn three simple tricks for staying steady: look at one spot, keep a tight tummy and use their arms. They then hold four one-foot poses on each foot for…
In this 35-minute indoor tag game for Grade 4, Monster Makers pass a foam ball and tag classmates, who then turn into silly monsters with exaggerated walks and noises until…
In this 35-minute outdoor lesson, Grade 5 students dribble soccer balls inside a coned square, keep control while classmates try to win the ball with their feet, and earn team…
In this 35-minute outdoor game for Grade 4, small teams take turns tossing bean bags into hula hoop islands from a cone about 20 feet away, doing jumping jacks together…
In this 35-minute indoor activity, Grade 8 students work in teams of four or five to move foam balls across the gym without letting them touch the floor, linking arms,…
In this 40-minute outdoor game for Grade 7, two teams dash into a shared middle zone to grab balls, dodge tags, and throw at the other side’s cones until one…
In this 35-minute outdoor game for Grade 6, children play humans racing across a coned field while a few classmates, as aliens, try to freeze them with gentle foam ball…
In this 35-minute indoor lesson, Grade 5 students stand in circles of six to eight and pass foam balls with underhand tosses, adding a second and then a third ball…
In this 35-minute indoor session, Grade 4 students play a team throwing game in pairs: when one partner is tagged below the waist with a foam ball, they run to…