PE Playworks Kindergarten

PE/Playworks Brain Booster Lesson5: K

Theme

Intro to PE and Recess

Games and Activities

Hungry Fox and Watch Your Back Tag

I can… K: Move in my space, an open space and change my speed.

Materials/ Space Needed

Home Base (Baseline, Sideline or Circle with paint or cones to mark boundary) Large rectangle shape (Basketball court)

Vocabulary Space: An area or place. My personal space is the area close to my body.

Speed: The rate of motion. I changed my speed in the tag game when I skipped and then ran.

Introduction

Begin class with a warm up procedure: ● Prepare students with daily expectations before entering the gym OR on Home Base. ● Warm up procedure may include several laps around the gym, stretching routine, or another quick, movement based activity. ● Back at Home Base, review rules/expectations of the school and

PE/Playworks with explicit examples when appropriate. ● Review any other specifc reminders needed for the day.

Before releasing students for the frst game, use a Sequence Touch to get them to the location you need them to be for the frst activity.

Hungry Fox

Show How How to Play:

● Similar to “Red, Light, Green Light”, students will line up on the opposite endline as you. ● In this game, you will be “Hungry Fox”and your students will be bunnies. ● Each round will begin with the students calling out “What time is it, Hungry Fox?” You respond with a time of day. ● Whatever time you say, the bunnies will hop forward (two feet together) the number you called out and freeze. They will ask again “What time is