Model the skill:

Model the skip to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively skip:

Say to the students:  

• • Use light springing steps.  

  • Keep eyes straight ahead.  

  • Step, hop, step, hop.  

  • Take off and land on the front of your foot.  

  • Make sure your body faces to the front.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback - Follow the line

A designated player tries to tag players who are skipping around a court area following the lines. Once tagged, players form ‘force fields’ for the remaining players.

• Designate one player as the tagger. All other players are scattered around the court on a line. 

• On your signal, players begin to skip around the court, following the lines. 

• The tagger tries to tag players by following the lines.

• Once a player is tagged, they must sit down in the spot they were tagged and become a ‘force field’. This means they stop any players from getting past, except for the tagger.

•  ‘Force fields’ cannot move. 

• The game continues until all players have been tagged.  

FMS focus activity - Pick some spots, join the dots

Equipment: 4 marker cones, music (optional).

How to play: Players identify a set number of spots (spatial placements) around the room, then link or sequence the various spots using the skip. 

• Players walk around the room and identify and name 4 spots (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). 

• Teacher calls out a sequence (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 3). 

• Players then link the spots called using a skip. 

• Vary the leg students lead.  

FMS consolidation activity - How high?

FMS: Catch

Equipment: 1 bean bag per pair

How to play: Players work in pairs, one player is the ‘clown’ and the other is the lion tamer, positioned at the starting line. Clowns throw their juggling object and try to run to the line behind them before the lion tamer catches it. 

• Arrange the players into 2 even lines approximately 2 metres apart, facing each other, making sure each player is facing their partner. 

• One player in the pair is the clown and the other is the lion tamer. The clown holds the juggling implement. 

• On the call ‘THROW’, the clown throws the juggling object as high as possible and sprints to the line behind them. The lion tamer tries to catch the juggling object before the clown reaches the line. 

• After 3-5 attempts, partners switch roles. 

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Tunnel crawl

Skill focus: Statics and teamwork 

Equipment: Any suitable flat surface, including mats, a floor or a soft grassed area 

How to play: Similar to tunnel ball but players crawl through their tunnel then side gallop to a marker and back, all team members crawl through tunnel and side gallop to marker and back.   

•  Players are positioned side-by-side, performing a front support hold.

•  Player at the end of the line, crawls through 'tunnel'.

• Once in front, the team member side gallops to a marker cone 10 metres away and side gallops back to the line. On return to the front of the line the player says ’GO! Team member at the back of the line crawls through and does side gallop. This repeats for all members of the team. 

• A team has finished when all players have crawled through the tunnel and side galloped. Team signals they are finished by all members standing with their legs apart, arms extended and hands placed on the shoulders of the team member in front.