Cooperative Activities
K - 1 Buggy Rides 3 - 6 The Bus
K - 1 Scooter-mania 3 - 6 The Glob
K - 2 I Want a Home 3 - 6 Minefield
K - 2 Hold that Floor 3 - 6 Kong Pong
K - 2 Copy Machine 3 - 6 Nerf-Ball Passover
K - 2 Traffic Tag 4 - 6 Sneak Attack
K - 2 Parachute Fun 4 - 6 Moving Islands
K - 2 Ring of Fun 4 - 6 Slalom Blindfold
1 - 2 Animals 4 - 6 Nine-person Skip
2 - 3 The Snake 4 - 6 Balloon Fooseball
2 - 5 Man From Mars 5 - 6 The Tadpole
2 - 6 Keepers of the Castle 5 - 6 Titanic Challenge
2 - 8 Cooperative Hoops 5 - 6 Human Knot
3 - 4 Cone Scramble 6 Cooperative Team Handball
3 - 5 Frogs and Ants 6 Cross-Over Blanket Volleyball
3 - 5 Loop Da Hoop

PPEP-PALS Lesson Sharing
Teacher & School: Lynn Perry & Chad Hunt, Sheppard Elementary
Activity Grade Level
Hold that Floor K - 2
Equipment Needs Signal and/or music (optional)
Facility/Playground Needs Can be played anywhere
Lesson Objective (Psychomotor and/or Cognitive):
  • Balance
  • Cooperation
  • Listening
  • Starting and stopping on signals
  • Counting
Teaching Hints: If playing on a blacktop don't have the students run for safety purposes.
Description:

Object of the game: On the stop cue, touch the floor with the same number of body parts as the caller has called.

  1. Have students move about the area in any motion picked.
  2. Stop the music or give a stop cue, and call out a number.
  3. The students have to have just that many body parts touching the floor.
  4. Start the music again, then on the stop cue, call out a different number.
Alternatives/Modifications

Change locomotor movements: On the stop cue, have them find a partner and work together to put the correct number of body parts on the floor.
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