Movement exploration - Week 4

Stage 1 - Phase one

Equipment

20 marker cones
20 hoops
music

Download the Movement exploration games - Week 4 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Skip

Learning intention

Students are learning to perform the locomotor skill of skipping in any direction from one point to another.

Success criteria

Students:

show a rhythmical step-hop
land on ball of the foot
knee of support leg bends to prepare for hop.
head and trunk are stable, eyes are focused forward
arms are relaxed and swing in opposition to legs.

Explicit teaching of skipping

About the skill

Skipping is a rhythmical locomotor skill that is basic to many children’s games. It is also fundamental to good footwork in numerous sports, such as basketball, netball and touch, and many forms of dance.

View 'The Get Skilled Get Active - 'Skip video' to support the explicit teaching of skipping.

Model the skill

Model skipping 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

Explore the skip by asking students to:

Perform the skip in a stationary position.
Do a step and then a hop on the same leg. Students then perform it on the other leg.
Skip holding their hands at waist height in front of them. Tell them: “Try to touch your hand with your knee with each hop”.
Try 4 different ways of moving their arms when they skip. Ask: “What arm movement feels best when you skip?”

Skill development games

Pick some spots, join the dots - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS focus activity - Pick some spots, join the dots

Learning intention: Pick some spots, join the dots is an activity that aids decision-making, spatial recall, spatial length and distance. It is a good introduction to many dance activities.

Equipment: 4 marker cones, music (optional).

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

Players walk around the room to identify and name the 4 marked spots (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4).
Teacher calls out a sequence (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 3).
Players then link the spots called by skipping.
Vary the way players move between spots e.g. running, hopping and side galloping.

Frogs and lily pads - Playing for Life Activity Card

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.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Students play the game outlined below in their teams.

Shapes in space

Equipment: Music

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

Call a shape (e.g. a circle, square or rectangle).
In a team, players make the nominated shape in the middle of the space, 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 skip to the middle to form the new shape.
Players begin skipping anti-clockwise.
Repeat this pattern.