Where the Wild Things Are
by M. Sendack (1984). New York: Harper Collins
• Students use the
big blue monster
feet to race
down to the cone
and back. First
group to finish
wins!
On the Track with Jeff Gordon
by Christopher,M. (2001). New York:Little Brown & Company
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Students will sit
on their bottom
using only feet
to move the
scooter to race
down to the
cones and back .
Racing car noises
are encouraged!
Baseball Saved Us
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by K.Mochizuki (1995) New York: Low Books
• Students use
the bat to hit
ball off the tee
and their
partner will field
the ball. Give
the students two
hits each.
Titanic by Sherrew, V. (2002). NewYork:Scholastic
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• Each student gets
2 carpet squares
(ice bergs).
Students race
down to the cone
and back using only
his/her carpet
squares to stand
on. They cannot
touch the ground.
Tiger Woods: King of the Course
by J. Savage (1998). Minneapolis: Lerner Publications
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• Putt like Tiger
Woods and win!
Try to putt the
ball right inside
the cones laying
on their side.
Get one in---and
celebrate!!
The Story of Ping
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by M. Flack
• Walk like a
duck!
Students race
down to the
cone and back
with a
playground ball
between legs.
Soccer Scoop
by M. Christopher (1988) New York: Little Brown
Two sets of cones will be set up for
each group in front of them.
X=Students < = cones
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X
<
X
X
<
X
Students will kick ball trying to
knock over all of their cones.
Partner will return kick until all
cones are knocked down.
Have students stand about 15
feet back.
Dem Bones
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by B. Barner (1996).
Students race to
the bag of
bones, dig to
find bone, and
race back with
bone to place in
correct spot on
the outline of
the skeleton.
Stone Soup
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by M. Brown (1986). New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Divide group into
teams.
• One team member
holds the bowl while
the other team
member has 5 chances
to toss stones (yarn
balls) into the bowl
using the spoon.
• Then, switch.
Will Rogers: Larger than life by D. Dadey (1999).
New York: Walker & Co.
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• Pretend your
Will Rogers and
the hula hoop is
a lasso and loop
the hoop around
your waist, arm,
or foot.
Caps For Sale
by E. Slobodkina (1987). New York: Harper Collins
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• 2 teams will race to the
cone and back with a
stack of domes on their
heads. The first person
finishes, gives their
stack to the next
person, and adds another
dome to the stack. If it
falls off their head, they
will need to quickly put
the stack back on their
head and continue to run
the race.
High Tide in Hawaii
by M. P. Osborne (2003). New
York: Random House
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• Jack & Annie travel in
their Magic Tree
House to a Hawaiian
island where they
learn to surf. Pretend
to surf standing on
balance boards for as
long as possible
without letting the
board touch the
ground. Do this 3
times each.
Clever Tortoise
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by F. Martin (2000). Mass: Candlewick Press.
• Clever Tortoise leads
the other jungle
animals in teaching
the bullying Elephant
and Hippopotamus a
lesson by tricking
them into engaging in
a tug of war with
each other.
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Now you try!
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seus (1940) New
York: Random House
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• When a lazy bird hatching
an egg wants a vacation,
she asks Horton, the
elephant, to sit on her egg-which he does through all
sorts of hazards until he is
rewarded for doing what
he said he would. Form 2
teams. Using hippity hops
students bounce down to
the cone and back. You can
do individual or relay races!
Anna Banana:101 jump-rope rhymes
by J. Cole (1989). New York: William Morrow and Company
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• Students will
jump rope (short
or long rope)
while learning
and reciting the
rhymes from the
book!
Astronauts
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by Joanne Mattern (2002). New York: PowerKids Press
• This book discusses
how the astronauts
work together when in
space to get things
done.
• Using the buddy
walkers, work together
with a partner to walk
around the cones and
back.
How I Became a Pirate
by M. Long (2003). Florida: Harcourt
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Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard
and his pirate crew and finds
out about pirate language,
pirate manners, and more.
Pick 1 person from each line
to be the pirate and have
them go stand on the cone.
On go, the 1st person in line
will pick an item from the
box, run down and put it on
the pirate. They will go
back, high-5 the next
person to do the same until
pirate is dressed. 1st team
to dress their pirate wins.
Holes
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by L. Sachar (1998). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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As further evidence of his
family's bad fortune which they
attribute to a curse on a distant
relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to
a hellish correctional camp in the
Texas desert where he finds his
first real friend, a treasure, and a
new sense of himself.
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The students toss ping-pong
balls and try to get them
into cups which may have
lizards in them.
If they get a ball to stay in
the cup with the lizard, they
get a point!
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