![]() I’m always looking for great ideas for teaching elementary students in a limited space. The school is working hard to find a permanent location, but meanwhile I struggle with a very bad space issue. When the weather is bad, I use the students classrooms to teach in but that can be very restricting. I love teaching the PE but often feel so discouraged with the space issues. ![]() I knew it was a challenge from the very beginning. That space also had to be shared with 600 recess students at various times throughout the day. ![]() The K-8th grade school was opening in a temporary space that had no gym only a parking lot that would be closed off for traffic during school hours. I knew when I took it that it was going to be the biggest challenge in my career so far. A new Charter school was opening up in Asheville so I decided to apply for the position of PE teacher. I was an Elementary teacher for many years before teaching PE. I’m new to the PE scene(1and a half years) so I have been trying to take in as much as I can to learn about teaching Physical Education. I’ve been reading all your resources and they have been a great help. You said you wanted to hear about what our biggest challenges are for teaching. So now the students have more things to think about – do they wait and hope to become unfrozen (play it safe) or do they risk it and toss their fireball to someone else….and hope they catch it! However, if they choose to toss their fireball and the receiving frozen student drops it then that fireball is out of play just like in level 2. They can either wait until another fireball unfreezes them or they can choose to toss their fireball to another frozen student. Level three sometimes ran too fast (fireballs getting tagged) so I added this strategic component: If a fireball is frozen they have two choices. This got most students doing the full fist pump and shuffle as well as unlocking some cool dance creativity in those students who just love to dance.Ģ. To encourage the dancing I told students they could get picked to tap out on Wow (Bonus Challenge) if they really rocked it in the dance department. Kids got really into this one after first playing Noodle Dance Tag. I have created a free download of the Game Sheet for your lesson plans which you can download below if you want. I use this game with all 3 levels with my 3rd – 5th graders and modify by only playing level 1 with my k-1st. You can modify and only play Level 1 with your younger students and add levels as you see fit with your older students. They should then have 2 fireballs to toss to other players that are frozen.Īs you can see, this game has 3 levels of play that will increase difficulty and strategic thinking for your students. If frozen they can still be unfrozen by another fireball if they make a successful catch.
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