I recently learned about an awesome Dr. Seuss-inspired field day planned and organized by Patti, an elementary school PE teacher. Here is one of her 21 stations:
Station 20
Title: Great Day For Up!
Skills: team work, upper body strength
Description: space students equally around the parachute. Have students in “elevator down” position and roll edges 3 times. Divide the class in half (ex. 28 students #1-14 on 1 team; #15-28 the other team) Give each side a color. Place 2 different sets of color objects in middle of chute. On the cue of “elevator up” students bring chute to waist level and start to shake the chute trying to bump the other team’s items out. The team that gets all the other teams items out. 1st team to succeed scores a point. The game begins again until the rotation horn is heard. (K-2’s hands might get tired after 2 min so elevator down let them wiggle their fingers and start again you can see when they are getting tired.)
I recently learned about an awesome Dr. Seuss-inspired field day planned and organized by Patti, an elementary school PE teacher. Here is one of her 21 stations:
Station 19
Title: Hop on Pop
Skills: gross motor, balance
Description: Divide students into 6 equal teams with the first person from each team sitting on a hoppity hop ball. On the signal to begin, these players hop on the balls around the cone and back to the start. The next person in the starting hoop will sit on the ball and wait for the next signal to begin. This is an individual race, not a team relay. These races should continue until time has been called.
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I’ve always struggled with giving creative tasks to do with spelling words. So when I saw this idea, I just HAD to make one. Here’s the instruction sheets for use with both spelling lists and thesaurus work:
Here’s a sheet you can give the kids when you have them do this activity. They can draw in the tiny box to indicate what number they rolled and write the word they’re working on next to it before doing the activity in the bigger square. 
I suppose you could modify this activity to help reinforce vocabulary words for a science, math or social studies unit.
I recently learned about an awesome Dr. Seuss-inspired field day planned and organized by Patti, an elementary school PE teacher. Here is one of her 21 stations:
Station 18
Title: Star Belly Sneeches’ Tug Of War
Skills: Muscle strength, team work
Description: Class will compete against each other. Divide the group in 2 (MIX the groups equal with both boys and girls on each team). The students will pick up the rope only after the volunteer’s command and then pull only when told to “GO”. The object is to pull the center of the rope past the cone marker. The students are not to let go of the rope, and are to stop pulling once the volunteer declares a winner. Play until time runs out, new teams every few times.
**Please remind students not to wrap the rope around any body parts and to make sure their hands are dry. (Dryer hands will cause less rope burn.)
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