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 3
Title: RING THE GACK
Skills: GROSS MOTOR, AGILITY, AND COORDINATION.
Description: HULA HOOPING: STUDENTS CAN HULA HOOP ON ANY BODY PART, THE K-2 STUDENTS CAN DO THE ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH RHYME AND JUMP INTO THE HOOP, OLDER STUDENTS CAN HAVE A HULA HOOP CONTEST.
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 2
Title: THE BUTTER BATTLE
Skills: GUARDING, DEFENDING AND THROWING, TEAM WORK, GROSS MOTOR
Description: K-1 WILL USE HULA HOOPS TO BUILD HOOP CASTLES THEY NEED 6 HOOPS EACH GROUP 30 HOOPS TOTAL (5 GROUPS) THEY MAY NEED SOME HELP. AFTER THEIR CASTLE IS BUILT THEY CAN TAKE TURNS CRAWLING THROUGH IT IF IT FALLS THEY MUST REBUILD REMIND STUDENTS TO WORK TOGETHER
2-5 DIVIDE CLASS INTO 4 TEAMS YOU ONLY NEED 24 HOOPS 6 PER TEAM. TO START THE GAME EACH TEAMS MUST WORK ON BUILDING A CASTLE WHEN (ADULT) SEES ALL CASTLES ARE BUILT THEY SAY GO EACH TEAM START WITH 5 FOAM BALLS TEAMS MUST THEN THROW OR ROLL THE BALL TRYING TO KNOCK DOWN THE OTHER TEAMS CASTLE IF A CASTLE GOES DOWN THAT TEAM CAN NO LONGER THROW ANY BALLS THEY ALL MUST HELP REBUILD THE CASTLE WHEN ITS BUILD AND HANDS ARE OFF THEY ARE BACK INTO THE GAME. REMIND TEAMS THE NEED TO GET BALLS THAT GO OUT OF THE RAMADA AREA.
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 1
Title: SNEETCH BALL
Skills: VOLLEY BALL SKILLS, TEAM WORK, EYE HAND COORDINATION, GROSS MOTOR
Description: DIVIDE CLASS INTO 4 GROUPS EACH GROUP WILL TAKE A SQUARE (COURT SIDE). TEAMS TRY TO KEEP THE BIG BALL UP AND OVER THE NET AND SEE HOW LONG THEY CAN KEEP THE VOLLEY GOING. GRADES 3, 4 AND 5 MAY PLAY A GAME OF 4 SQUARE VOLLEY BALL.
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Here’s a cute video submitted by an AZ elementary school. The AZ state test is called AIMS, and the video is a parody of Taio Cruz’s song, “Dynamite”. They made this video and used it to get the kids jazzed about the upcoming tests. Great idea!
Click here to see their video on YouTube.
This is one of the easiest and cutest spring crafts I’ve seen in a long time (my friend Carol did this one). Grab some colored paper (preferably heavier than printer paper), paint, glitter, glue and muffin tin cups. It’s as easy as you think it is: cut out a flower shape and glue a muffin tin cup to the center. Decorate the petals with paint, crayons, markers, etc. Glue some glitter to the center of the muffin cup and then attach your own paper stem. Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy!
(Submitted by a fellow teacher. I love that she even had napkins!)
Ms. L teaches first grade. She told the kids she had a tasty surprise for them. Then she had them close their eyes and see if they could smell the brownies. They could she put a napkin on each desk then put a brown construction paper “E” (Brown E’s) on each desk. One kid even took a bite. They didn’t quite get it at first. She told this in faculty meeting, and another teacher had heard that someone else at another school had done this too.
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I’m a huge fan of games. They disguise potentially unpleasant practice! Here’s my collection of math turtles to help your kids practice basic math skills (including simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Happy spring!
Click here for the 4 printable PDFs: Turtle Dice Games
Don’t forget about the Fancy Turtles editions!
I recently worked with an after-school program full of kindergarten boys who loved paper airplanes. the only problem is that they weren’t super great at making airplanes that flew far. They got discouraged with their airplane after throwing it a few times and seeing it land only a few feet away. So, they’d grab more paper and try again (folding it the exact same way). So the cycle would repeat itself until all the paper was gone. This seemed like a waste of paper to only use the airplane for 3 throws, so I decided to see what I could do to help these little guys appreciate their little planes, even though they didn’t fly very far. I used chalk to draw a line from which to throw the planes, and shapes on the ground with point values written inside. I taught the boys how to take turns throwing their planes from the line to see if they could hit a specific target. Since they were little, they didn’t care about the total points they earned, but had a blast seeing who could land on the targets with 100 points.
I made sure to have plenty of targets and many that were only a few feet away so the kids with wacky-folded planes would be able to participate. The boys were much more entertained. Mission accomplished!
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