Elementary PE Brainbooster

PE/Playworks Brain Booster Lesson 21: K-2nd

Theme

JumpRope

Games and Activities

Snake and Jump Rope Songs

I can… K: Jump a long rope.

1st: Jump a long rope five times in a row. 2nd: Jump a long rope five times in a row. HomeBase Cones (Designating each jump rope area) Long Jump Ropes (2-3 based on group size)

Materials/ Space Needed

Vocabulary N/A

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. How will we be safe/kind/responsible in PE today? ● Review any other specific reminders needed for the day. Before releasing students for the first game, use a Sequence Touch to get them to the location you need them to be for the first activity.

Snake

Show How How to Play:

● Students will form a single file line, facing the long jump rope stretched out on the ground. ● Choose one student to be the other turner, sitting or kneeling by the handle, while you take the other handle. ● You and the turner will move the rope back and forth, keeping it on the ground, so it “slithers like a snake”. ● The first student will walk or run up to the rope and jump over it, trying

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