MUSICAL HOOPS
Cycle: 1-2-3
Activity Level: medium
QEP: Competency I
Equipment: playing area, music, coloured hoops
Formation: scatter
Tactics: agility
Description: Each student is given a hoop and finds a spot in the playing area. When the music starts, the teacher tells the students how to move by giving them a movement pattern such as running, skipping, hopping, galloping, leaping, etc. When the music stops, the students must all quickly go find a hoop to stand in.
Layer 1:
Activity Level: medium
QEP: Competency I
Equipment: playing area, music, coloured hoops
Formation: scatter
Tactics: agility
Description: Each student is given a hoop and finds a spot in the playing area. When the music starts, the teacher tells the students how to move by giving them a movement pattern such as running, skipping, hopping, galloping, leaping, etc. When the music stops, the students must all quickly go find a hoop to stand in.
Layer 1:
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have the students
pick a spot with their hoop that is all their own
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practice moving in
the open space while avoiding others
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when stopping the
music, the teacher can yell out a colour and the students can only
step into hoops of that colour
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do not allow more
than a certain number of people to share a hoop
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call out a body
part that must be touching the hoop when the music stops
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keep heads up
