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Space Shake

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Dragon Multi-skills

Let's Play

  • Eight children in each garden.
  • Make own version of sports aerobics by performing a range of sport moves to music.
  • Work with a partner to make up two moves – 16 counts for each move – and then join two pairs together. Teach each other to have 4 x 16 counts and then join two fours together and again teach one another to have an 8 x 16 count routine that can be repeated.
  • Perform routine as accurately as possible.

Safety & Organisation

Ensure: 

  • surface is safe and free from obstructions

Opportunities to

  • develop control, balance, co-ordination
  • develop stamina and strength
  • show greater accuracy in sequencing
  • sustain activity over appropriate periods of time
  • feel positive about themselves
  • use compositional principles in creative activities to plan a performance with an awareness of the factors that promote quality
  • describe how they feel doing different activities and show some understanding of the importance of physical activity to health, fitness and well-being

Questions

  • How did you feel when you finished your routine?
  • Why is it important that you do activities like these regularly?
  • How often and for how long should you be active each week?
  • What could you do to persuade your family to join in with this activity?
  • How could you make this activity easier?
    – How could you make this more challenging (energy/thinking)?
  • How well did you remember the order of the moves?
    – How could you improve your movement memory?
  • What are you going to do next time to make sure you remember all your moves?

Changes to the activity

Change the:

  • Space

    • perform within a different space with different points of reference

  • Task

    • activities/skills the routine is made up from, e.g. use only football skills, or swimming strokes, or athletics skills, or fitness skills, must include one from…, choose from… etc. – use a move cube to decide moves
    • direction, speed, level of the moves
    • number of moves in each section – more or fewer

  • Equipment

    • add in balls, hoops, skipping ropes, etc.
    • add in apparatus such as benches, steps, etc.

  • People

    • one group choose moves for another group to do – include some ‘must have’ moves, e.g. goal celebrations, etc.
    • number in each group
    • way you work as a pair, e.g. mirroring – change the way you work as a group, e.g. unison (all at the same time), canon (one group after another Mexican wave style)