kinesiology

Teacher: Henschel

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Skill: Sounds, Stops, and Starts

CA Standards

1.1 Travel within a large group, without bumping into others or falling, while using locomotor skills.

1.2 Travel forward and sideways while changing direction quickly in response to a signal.

Objectives :

1. Demonstrate comprehension of teacher commands during a PE class

2. Perform sudden stops, starts and direction changes in response to sound

3. Demonstrate five forms of locomotion including walking, running, skipping, hopping, jumping

Equipment Needed :

1. Gymnasium activity area 3. Hula Hoops (12)

2. Whistle 4. Music/Speaker

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Time Activity

3 min Introductory Activity

Musical Hoops – when music plays class moves about the floor, when music stops each student must have at least one foot inside of a hoop (hoops are scattered flat on floor)

10 min Fitness Activity

· Students will line up on one line and run around the perimeter of gym floor, stopping each time they reach the same spot on the floor

· Students will enter a “push-up” position and perform various activities including pointing to a friend, lifting one leg, and clapping

· Students will sit and perform a modified hurdlers stretch

20 min Lesson Focus Activity

· Teacher will demo freeze position, discuss weight transfer and balance

· Freeze position - in anticipation of changing directions, students will freeze when they hear the teacher blow the whistle, bounce the basketball, or shout a command

· Accelerating out of the “freeze” position – also on command or sound

· Students work across the gym line to line as group and individually on command.

Teaching points – dropping body weight; planting outside foot; controlling body speed

10 min Game Activity

Toe to Toe - move about the floor using various forms of locomotion; at the blow of whistle find a partner and stand toe to toe with that person (only one foot needs to contact the partner).

Whistle Mixer - move about the floor using various forms of locomotion; at the blow of whistle they must find and form groups of the number of whistle blasts and stand toe to toe in their groups. Any person who does not find a group sits down in the “time-out station” in the center of the floor. Game will restart at teacher’s discretion.