Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.5A Grade 4 CPI 8

 

Standard: 2.5 - Motor Skills

 

Strand: A -   Movement Skills 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 8 -  The student will respond appropriately to visual and verbal cues during physical activity.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        ONE BEHIND - Students use their powers of observation to react to a series of movements performed by a leader. For this game, participants perform the designated movement skill when the leader moves to the second skill. Students are always one movement skill behind the leader. For example, the teacher begins this activity by performing arm circles. When the teacher begins the second move (e.g., mountain climbers), students begin arm circles.

 

      Variation: This activity can be performed in a circle formation similar to the popular “Wave” activity done at sporting events. One student initiates a movement skill, such as arm circles. Then each student, in succession, performs the same skill. When all students have joined in the movement activity, the leader starts another skill.