Yesterday was my third day of teaching at the Cortland
Christian Academy. My partner Lucia and I decided to try out a whole lesson on
jump roping and our host teacher absolutely loved it.
We started off the lesson by handing out different
colored name tags to the students. This helped easily divide up the students
into 4 squads. It is also helping us learn the student’s names, and every day
that I go to the school, I try to learn more and more of the student’s names. We
started off with a quick instant activity called Shadow. Students worked with
partners and had to do different locomotor skills moving around the gym while “shadowing”
their partner.
After the instant activity, we dove right into the lesson
focus which focused on a bunch of ways to modify jumping rope for the
kindergarteners and first graders who were still gaining competency in the
skill. One of the favorite activities of the students was laying the rope on the
floor and doing as many ski jumps over the rope as they could in 30 seconds. We
then challenged the group to jump for another 30 seconds and try to beat their
first score. The class really seemed to like all of the modified activities we
had planned and most definitely got their MVPA in for the day.
Our second class of second and third graders was much
more competent in jumping rope and thus we got to do some more advanced things
with these students. I was truly amazed at all of the tricks that the students
could do. This class was exhausted by the end of the class and asked if we
could do jump roping again next week!
It is really amazing how many neat things you can do with
your students if each student has just one jump rope. It is definitely a great
way to build up the cardiovascular endurance in students and they have a lot of
fun at the same time.
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