Jump Rope

Weekly PE Module: Jump Rope

Watch the video below as Mrs. Cookston from Riley Elementary leads you through the jump roping activity, Jumping Frenzy.


Additional information about the activities, including materials needed, can be found below.

Warm Up

Fitness BINGO

Materials needed

  • None


Directions

  • Mrs. Cookston leads you through a game of fitness BINGO in the video linked above.
  • Draw a card and complete that fitness activity.
  • Once you complete the card mark it off of your BINGO card.
  • Keep going until you get a BINGO.
  • If you would like to play your own game of fitness bingo later on. Check out the resource with BINGO cards linked below.

Activity: Jumping Frenzy

Materials needed

  • Jump rope (If you don't have a jumprope use an invisible jump rope).
  • Deck of cards

Directions

  • Watch as Mrs. Cookston leads you through an activity where you draw cards from a deck of cards. Each suit of card represents a different kind of jump using the jumprope.
      • Heart - Skier Jump
      • Diamond - Double Bounce
      • Spade - jump backwards
      • Club - Single bounce
  • Do that type of jump the number of times that is on the playing card.
      • If you draw a 5 of Hearts you will do 5 skier jumps.
  • Continue drawing cards and completing the jumprope cards.
  • As you are drawing cards add up the numbers until you get to 50.
  • Once you reach 50, continue drawing cards and instead of adding you will subtract from 50 until you get back down to zero.

Cool Down: Take Five


Cool down from the activities by performing a Take Five deep breathing exercise with Mrs. Cookston.

Additional Jump Roping Activities and Resources

Looking for more jump roping activities and resources?

If so, check out the links below!

Have you not yet mastered how to use a jump rope?

If not, let Mr. Fleer the PE teacher at The Donald D. Sherrill Education Center help you with mastering some jumping skills before moving on to using the jump rope.

Would you like a challenge?

Try out some of these jump rope tricks if you would like to challenge yourself.

Bonus Activities

Pick from 3 or more of the activities below for more ways to be safely active this week!

Your goal should be to get 60 minutes a day of exercise safely under the social distancing directives.

Family Engagement

Family Games



Check out some of these games submitted by our PE teachers that you can play as a family.

Lego Color Hunt

Each person searches for a specific color of lego that was hidden by a parent or sibling.

Hallway Laser MazeCreate a laser maze

Create a laser maze In a hallway and time each other to see how quickly you can get through the laser maze without touching.

Fitness

Indoor Workouts

Watch the video below with Mr. Keitges from West Lincoln Elementary as he leads you through upper body exercises.

Skills

Soccer

Practice your kicking skills focusing on accuracy and distance with Mrs. Timmons from Rousseau Elementary.
Can you juggle toilet paper with your feet like these soccer players?

Mindfulness and Relaxation

Think About It

Follow along with the Think About It videos from GoNoodle as they lead you through different mindfulness activities.

Movement Patterns

Bracing and Rotational Exercises


Bracing and rotational exercises strengthen the ability to stabilize the spine & create safe movement ensuring we can effectively execute bracing movements in our daily lives.

Adaptive PE

Adaptive Physical Education (APE) is an adapted, or modified, physical education program designed to meet the individualized gross motor needs, or other disability-related challenges, of an identified student.
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