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 game - Shapes in space

FMS: Skip

Equipment: Music player and music 

How to play: In a group, players make a basic shape in the middle of the room then skip clockwise. When the music stops, players move away from the basic shape. When the music starts again, players skip back together and form another basic shape. 

• Call a shape (e.g. a circle, square or rectangle). 

• In a group, players make the nominated shape in the middle of the room, and the music begins. 

• Players start skipping clockwise while the music is playing. 

• When the music stops, all players skip away from the shape. 

• Call another shape (e.g. a square). 

• The music starts again and players run to the middle to form the new shape. 

• Players begin skipping anti-clockwise. 

• Repeat this pattern. 

FMS consolidation activity - Frogs and lily pads

FMS: Hop 

Equipment: A 10m x 10m square marked out by 4 cones (the pond), hoops to be used as lily pads.

How to play: Players continuously hop from lily pad to lily pad using a one foot take-off and landing technique.  

• Randomly distribute the hoops inside the pond, making sure they are not too far away from each other (i.e. jumping distance). 

• Players jump from lily pad to lily pad and see how many they can land on in a given amount of time (e.g. 60 seconds). 

• If there is more than one frog on the lily pad, it will sink. If a player jumps onto a lily pad with another player already on it, the original player must immediately find another lily pad to jump onto. 

• Players may jump into the pond as well as onto the lily pads. 

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.