Equipment Cut out word cards (number depends on the sentence and how many teams). One basketball per team and at least one basketball goal per two teams.

English - Travelling

One or two children are given "Boffers" to use as safe taggers. When a child is tagged, they must freeze and can only become unfrozen when they tell the teacher who is circulating around, a word that begins with the letter that is agreed to at the beginning of the round. For instance, these taggers will freeze you and you must think of A words to become unfrozen. More teachers in the class help to keep things moving. Make sure to tell children they may only use a word one time. If larger area you can add more taggers. "Boffers" are from "New Games" book and are styrofoam swords that allow for tagging without contact and injury.

English - Travelling

Equipment Cut out letter cards (number depends on the word and how many teams). Cones to mark out running distance.

 

The class is divided into groups of three or four. Each team is given a word (which they don't know yet). One by one they will perform the shuttle run to the other side and retrieve one letter. Once all the letters are retrieved, they will determine the word, check its spelling, They will yell out "finish" and come up with a sentence to tell the teacher. This can be done as many times as wanted or needed (Note: The words can be switched around from team to team so that they don't get the same word over and over again).

The children gain review for a spelling test and learn about how to complete the shuttle run. The children also learn about team work and the importance of it in this activity.

 

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Maths - Travelling/Fitness

Equipment Cut out number cards (numbers depends on class abillity).

Place hoops down in a large outdoor area or gymnasium to create a large circle.
Label hoops with 0, 10, 20, -- 100
(not putting the hoops in chronological order encourages more fitness).

Scatter the "in between" numbers all around the inside of the hooped-off area.

Description/Directions:

1. Tell students that they will be practicing rounding numbers today in conjunction with fitness.

2. On the "go" signal students will skip (or whatever locomotor skill you choose) to collect a number from out of the centre of the circle.

3. When they get a number, they look at it, round it to the nearest ten and then decide which hoop it belongs in.

4. After finding the hoop and putting the number in it, they will skip back out to the centre, pick another number and repeat the process.

5. When all of the numbers are gone, the teacher will take the students to each hoop and see if the numbers are in the correct location. If they are not, the class will discuss why it does not belong and where it should go.

Teaching suggestions:

• Remind students they are only picking up one number at a time.

• Have different students begin at a specific hoop, so they at least know where one of the major numbers is located and so they are spread out.

• Underline numbers that when upside down make another number or look like another number. Examples: 69, 96, 6, 9, 18, 81, etc.

Modifications/added activities:

• Do this with partners or groups of three, so not everyone is in the middle at the same time. Have one student go out, get a number and place it in the correct hoop, then come back and hi-five their partner and then that person goes in.

• Use this same game with decimals or rounding to a specific hundred/thousand, in a number of millions.

• Stay inside and place paper plates down that are labeled 0-100. You can even use the tops of student desks.

Maths - Travelling

Children should travel around the gym hall, then tell them when they hear the whistle they must stop. Give them simple maths problems or just a number. Students must then, upon hearing this, form the suggested number (that means if I give a problem they must first figure out what the answer is and then form the groups). Whoever doesn't get into a group must figure out how many people they need to form their own group. Once they answer, we get ready to do another problem.

Use as many different movements as possible, each time changing (running, skipping, hopping, jumping, walking, crawling etc).

Health and Wellbeing - Healthy Eating

Equipment Hoops 1 hoop per 2/3 children     Throwing objects Large target Throw down spots or marker cones

Every student is designated as a "Healthy Food Police Officer.” Each group of 2-3 students will have one of the hoops placed around the perimeter of the activity area designated as their “Police Car.” Each police car contains a variety of healthy foods (i.e., beanbags & other objects that can be thrown). The large target, designated as “the mouth,” is placed in the center of the activity area. Marked spots are scattered throughout the activity area. (Be aware of students’ throwing abilities while placing the spots).

The teacher will tell the class that today they are going to be "Healthy Food Police." Their job as police officers is to stop unhealthy foods from getting into someone’s mouth by replacing them with healthy foods. Hold up examples from a “Police Car” while asking students to name a healthy food that can correspond with the colour or other attribute of the object. Allow students to suggest several ideas. This allows the teacher to know, and correct if necessary, students’ perception of what foods can be considered healthy foods.

The Healthy Food Police (students) will work in teams to get healthy food (beanbags) into the mouth and unhealthy food (spots) into their police cars. Students accomplish this by standing on the unhealthy foods and throwing a piece of healthy food into the mouth. If the healthy food stays in the mouth they pick up that piece of unhealthy food (spot) and place it into their police car. If the healthy food does not land in the mouth, they leave that unhealthy piece of food on the floor, allowing another student to throw from that spot.

Challenge students to practice proper throwing techniques each time they try to throw healthy food into the “mouth.” Challenge higher-skilled throwers to throw from more distant poly spots. If using cones to designate “the mouth,” the size of the target (mouth) can be changed according to the skill levels of the children.

When play slows down, or when most of the poly spots are in the “Police Cars" stop the game. Review concepts and skills, then play game again.

Health and Wellbeing Couch potato

Equipment Bibs for catchers Healthy foods - pictures of plastic foods will do

Discuss with your students: “What is a couch potato?”

Do you think a couch potato is healthy?”

Most likely you will receive answers like: “A couch potato is lazy, does not exercise and eats junk food like potato chips.”

Introduce the concept of being healthy and how we don’t want to be a couch potato. “How can we keep from being a couch potato?”

Answers: get exercise, keep moving, eat healthy stuff.

Choose 2/3 people to be "it" (remote controls freezing others into couch potatoes). Identify them using a bib.

Designate an area using cones or a mat as the couch where couch potatoes go, and another area where the refrigerator is, in which pretend fruits and vegetables have been placed. Fruits and vegetables can include laminated pictures of fruits and vegetables or plastic ones you can buy. Be creative!

Using various locomotor movements, students travel around the playing area. If a student is tagged by the “remote control,” (s)he moves to the couch where (s)he sits down, stretches out with legs crossed pretending to be lazy and watches TV.

To re-enter the game designeated helpers retrieve a fruit or vegetable from the “fridge,” bring it to a couch potato and tell her/him to “get off the couch!” The couch potato needs to prove that (s)he is not a couch potato by performing a designated exercise while the helper counts (for example: 10 good jumping jacks or 10 knees up).

The helper sees that (s)he deserves the fruit or vegetable and hands it to her/him. The couch potato pretends to eat the healthy snack, returns it to the refrigerator and then re-enters the game.