Movement exploration - Week 3

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback - Follow the line

A designated player tries to tag players who are hopping 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 move 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 - Frogs and lily pads

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. 

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. 

Hoop races

Equipment: One hula hoop per group.

How to play: Players in teams race each other by passing a hoop up and down their line while making up and down noises. 

• In groups, players form a line, one behind the other approximately 1 metre apart. 

• The first player in the line steps into the hoop, takes it over their head and then passes it to the next person at head height. 

• The next player takes it over their head, lowers the hoop, steps through it and passes it to the next player. 

• Each group agrees on an ‘up noise’ and a ‘down noise’ and makes these noises as the hoop travels up and down. 

• This pattern continues until the hoop reaches the end of the line. 

• The end player runs to the beginning of the line and starts again. 

• Play until the original leader is back at the front of the line.