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GRADE: 1 & 2 RESOURCES & EQUIPMENT:

UNIT: Gymnastics Lesson 1: Beanbags, hula hoops, mats, sanitizer
DATES: Nov 8-12 Lesson 2: Music – phone, speakers, sanitizer
Lesson 3: Poly spots, skipping ropes
Lesson 4: Hula Hoops, Music – phone, speakers, sanitizer
Lesson 5: Hula Hoops, pins, dodge balls, sanitizer
LESSON LENGTH (mins): 20-27

Lesson GO’s SO’s Learning Activities / Teaching Strategies

Key Objectives: Balancing: Students will learn the importance of balance in relation to gymnastics and other activities, they will learn
1 A,D A1-3 different balancing poses and begin thinking about different strategies for maintaining balance.
A1-12
Intro (3 minutes) Students will get into squads, sit quietly and show me they are ready to listen. Talk about why balance is important in
D1-1 gymnastics, and how gymnastics helps improve their ability to play other games.
D1-2
Warm up: (5 minutes)
Bean Bag balance - All students get a bean bag and place it on their head, they have to move about the gym while trying not to drop it. Increased
challenge – add more bean bags, try sitting, going in a circle

Discussion: Talk about different strategies for keeping the bean bag balanced on their head

Body:
Demonstration (5 minutes): Lead a demonstration of different balance poses, students practice copying the balances. Balances: Tree (single leg),
Chair, Warrior, Cat, Boat, Downward Dog

Musical Hula Hoops - Balancing Edition (5 minutes): hula hoops are spread out among the gym, when the music plays students can skip around
the gym. When the music stops, they must find a hula hoop and complete a balance pose.

Closure:
Letter Stretch (3 minutes): Working in pairs students must try to balance/stretch their bodies to make a letter (A, V, L, O, H, T, K, Y). Have a
visual of the letters.

1-minute reflection: Ask students to think about their effort/participation, thumbs up if you played all the games and tried your hardest, Middle
thumb is you tried most of the games, Thumbs down these games weren’t for you but you will try to next class.
(21-minute class)
Key Objectives: Traveling: Students will practice different ways to travel within the gym. Hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, galloping.
2 A1-1
Intro: Students will sanitize their hands and sit in their showing me they are ready to listen.

Warm up:
Animal Freeze Game – travel like animals (2.5 minutes). Ask students to raise their hand if they have played freeze dance – quickly review, the
song will say an animal and you must move around like that animal until they say freeze.
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 Body:
Relays: Practice (8 minutes): Skipping, galloping, hopping, leaping

Colour Freeze Dance (2.5 minutes) – dancing, hopping, skipping, twirling, shaking

Line Tag (8 minutes) students must gallop, skip, hop around on the lines, if they get tagged, they must freeze but they can be freed by their peers
my both performing a balance move they learned yesterday.

Extra Games:
Fox& Hound – one student is the fox, one the hound, the fox must move around the gym and the hound mirrors their actions.

Cat & Mouse – everyone is in pairs, two people begin as a cat and a mouse, everyone else lays down on the ground if the mouse lays beside you,
your partner must get up and become the mouse. If the mouse is caught by the cat, they switch roles.

Closure:
Letter Stretch (5 minutes): Students partner up– C, X, P, R, J .. repeat letters from yesterday

1-minute reflection: Ask students to think about their effort/participation, thumbs up if you played all the games and tried your hardest, Middle
thumb is you tried most of the games, Thumbs down if these games weren’t for you but you will try to next class.

(27 minutes class)

Key Objectives: Jumping & Landing
3
Warm up:
Floor is lava (5 minutes): poly spots placed on the floor; students need to jump from poly spot to poly spot trying not to fall in the lava

Body:
Snakes (5 minutes): Groups of 3, two students shake the jump rope and the third must jump over it 10 times without getting bitten by the snake.

Skipping (5 minutes): Practice skipping. Count how many times you can skip without stopping.

Helicopter: everyone has to jump over the jump rope (if we have a long rope)

Jumping Jack Tag

Closure:

1-minute reflection: Ask students to think about their fair play, thumbs up if you waited your turn and didn’t cut in front of anyone, Middle thumb
if you waited patiently most of the time, Thumbs down if you had a really hard time waiting for your turn and you may have cut in front of people.

(20 minutes class)

Key Objectives: Hula hoops!
4
Intro (3 minutes): Talk about how hula hooping is connected to gymnastics. When the whistle blows, we sit criss cross in our hula hoop. No
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 playing with the hula or else we lose the hula and then the games won’t be as fun!

Warm up:
Hokey Pokey (5 minutes): hokey pokey with a hula hoop

Body:
Hula Hoop cars (5 minutes) – importance of being aware of others – we don’t try to crash our cars. Highway = fast, school zone = slow motion,
bumpy road = skip, curvy road = zig zag, turn up the radio = dance, out of gas = sit down.

Practice hula hooping. (8 minutes): standing still and moving. Hula around your arm (R&L), skip rope

Pass the hula (5 minutes): in pairs – one hula hoop, holding hands try to pass from one person to the other. As a big group, make a circle,
everyone holding hands, try passing the hula hoop around without breaking the circle.

Closure:
1-minute reflection: Ask students to think about how safe they played today, thumbs up if you were super safe & you didn’t crash into anyone,
Middle thumb if you were pretty safe but there were a couple accidents, Thumbs down if you weren’t very safe and you got hurt or accidently hurt
others, but you will try to be safe next time!

(27-minute class)
Key Objectives: LOG Friday’s - Targets Away or King of the pin! (good for all grades, change the distance of the hula hoops, size of pins,
5 number of dodgeballs)

(20 minute class)

EDUC 535.08/16 M. Kilborn – Fall 2021 Adapted from Alberta Learning (2000). Physical Education Guide to Implementation (K-12).