Aliens & Astronauts warm-up for grade 3

Aliens & Astronauts warm-up for grade 3

Laurel Apps

The lesson that would follow this warm-up would be part of our soccer unit. The students will have been dodging, paying attention to location of taggers, freeing teammates and passing the beanbags with their feet/ blocking beanbags with their feet. All of these skills would be part of the skills required for a mini game of soccer. Directly following the game would be some practice passing and dribbling the ball before going on to play a mini game of soccer.

Grade: 3

Topic: Soccer

Lesson 4 of 10

Lesson focus: Working cooperatively, body movement, strategy implementation

Equipment:Ā  6 pinnies, beanbags, cones (if no circle lines in the gym)

Learning outcomes:Ā  The students will be able to…

1.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Focus on multiple goals at once (tag peers, stop beanbags) (stay free, slide beanbags to free peers) (keep self and others safe)

2.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Follow the rules of the game in order to be safe and play cooperatively

Introductory activity/warm up

Explanation (2 mins)

Play Time (4 + mins)

-Work together to ā€œcaptureā€ or ā€œfreeā€ peers

– 2-4 students will be astronauts (ā€œitā€)

-Astronauts will tag aliens, who will go to center circle (blackhole)

-aliens kick/ slide beanbags into the circle to free teammates

-Astronauts can block beanbags with feet

-Once free, aliens slide beanbag back out to gym

-Play for at least 3 minutes, then pause game to pick new astronauts.

Organization

Teaching Points

-Heads up and scanning for peers while running

-Working together to free peers from blackhole

-Encourage good sportsmanship

-Remind students to put hand up if they or someone else is injured

-Not about winning, finish game without determining a ā€œwinnerā€

Boundary line in place to prevent running into walls

Sliding beanbags on the ground rather than throwing through the air

Having students volunteer to be ā€œitā€

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