For 8 teams of 4 players each

• Cones
• Exercise prompt cards
• Cassette player
• Active music

Fitness.

The students don’t have to perform all the skills perfectly, the idea is to keep moving.

If you don’t have cones you can use anything that will stay stationary to mark the corners.

Even though the students are moving in the same direction some students may move faster than others, resulting in collisions. Split up the class if you need more room.

There can be several squares set up, each with different movements around the edges.

Use upbeat music to get students moving.

During this activity students will be doing different exercises around cones. The cones are on the corners of a square. On each side of the square there is a different locomotor movement (activities can vary from day to day). On one side the students will run from one cone to the next, on the second side they’ll crab walk to the next cone (stomachs facing up, moving backwards on hands and feet), then they will stand up bend over, grab their ankles and walk to the next cone, on the last side of the square the students will skip or gallop to the starting cone. The prompt cards, with pictures of the movement, can be leaned against the cones so that students can see what they're supposed to be doing on each side of the square.

After the stretches, the music and student activity recommences.

The students can exercise for a certain amount of time or there can be a certain number of times the students need to go around the square.

Another variation involves the teacher stopping the music after set intervals of activity and students performing stretches.