Grade 5
“I can create my own personal wellness plan.”
“I can track my progress on my own personal wellness plans."
“I can track my progress on my own personal wellness plans."
The grade 5 students have started a fitness workout plan at school. They could create a new one at home, and challenge themselves each month to see if they can do better than the month before.
Workout Plan |
The grade 5 students have also done a fitness test. Our plan was to do one in February, April and June to see how they have improved. This is something else they could try at home.
Fitness Test |
June 8 - 12.
“I can act respectfully and safely in a variety of physical activities.”
“I can plan strategies with others to accomplish a common goal.”
“I can plan strategies with others to accomplish a common goal.”
- This game comes from Ms. Parsons and is called “Hello Tree.” For this game you need a partner, a blind fold, and trees. One person will put the blind fold on, while the other person will lead them to a tree. The person without the blind fold must give very clear instructions to help their partner reach the tree. The blind folded person but listen carefully to instructions and is not allowed to touch their partner. Once the blindfolded person gets to the tree, they are going to explore the tree with the help of their partner. The partner can ask questions such as, can you hug it or feel any moss on it? Once finished exploring the tree, the partner must lead the blindfolded person back to the start. When back to the start, the blindfolded person can try and find which tree they touched. You can then switch roles.
- Instead of trees, you could set up various objects and lead the blindfolded person to them, have them touch it and try and figure out what it is, lead them back to the beginning, take their blindfold off and have them look at all the objects and guess which one they touched. You can vary this game in many ways!
June 1 - 5.
“I can create my own personal wellness plan.”
“I can make basic choices on where to best place an object to reach a target.”
- Work on your personal wellness plan. If you haven’t already created one at home, create one this week and fill in your results. Test yourself in a few weeks to see if you have improved. If you have already done it once, test yourself to see if you do better this time, than the first time. You can find this form at the top of the page.
- Work on the fitness test. See if you have improved.
“I can make basic choices on where to best place an object to reach a target.”
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May 25 - 29.
“I can demonstrate fluid transitions between my dance steps."
- Practice the Cha Cha slide this week. I would love to see videos! Can you add your own twist to the dance?
May 19 - 22.
“I can move to get away from a defender.”
“I can place myself between the carrier and the goal/target when defending."
“I can place myself between the carrier and the goal/target when defending."
- You can practice these outcomes in a variety of ways.
- Play a game of soccer, hockey, basketball, etc. Any activity that involves you keeping an object away from an opponent and trying to stop an opponent from hitting the target.
May 11 - 15.
“I can act appropriately whether I win or lose"
- Watch the following video on sportsmanship:
- After watching the video, see if you can answer these questions:
- What is sportsmanship and how can I show it? What are ways I can handle losing a game?
- Make a list of ways to show good sportsman and a list of unsportsmanlike.
- Why was the second place trophy more meaningful to Howard than all of his other trophies put together?
- How do you think Howard’s behaviour in the beginning made others feel?
- What might have happened to Howard if he continued to be unsportsmanlike?
- Are you like Howard or do you know anyone like Howard?
- Play a game of “Make it, Take it."
- For this game you need various targets (laundry baskets, boxes), take it items that will go on the floor (paper, cards, plates, tissue paper, etc) and an object to throw (socks, balls)
- Set up the “take it” items all over the floor. These will be where the students throw from.
- Set up the targets all around the room.
- When the game starts, students will run to an object on the floor and stand on or beside it. From here they must try to throw their object into the target. If they get it in, they can pick up the item off the floor, and go to another one. Play continues until there are no objects on the floor. The player with the most “take it” wins.
- Here is a different way of playing with just one target:
May 4 - 8.
“I can maintain my balance for 5 seconds on steady, unsteady and moving objects by:
- widening my base for support;
- lowering my centre of gravity by bending my knees;
- focusing eyes forward;
- extending body parts to help counterbalance;
- tightening my muscles to hold my balance;
- keeping my back in a neural position.
- Test your balancing skills by trying out some of these ideas. What other ways have you practiced balancing?
- Draw a line or a zigzag with chalk on the ground. Keep your keep on the line the whole time, try not to fall off! You could also use tape inside!
- Make a “balancing beam” using wood, sticks, rocks or anything else you can find that will help you balance off the ground.
- Tie a piece of string between two trees. Can you walk the straight line?
- Make your own balance board. Pinterest has all kinds of ideas! One way to do this, is to find a solid cylinder object and place a board on top.
- Stand on a fit ball or some other type of ball - how long can you balance for?
- Bosu Ball - see how long you can balance for?
- Skateboard - skateboarding takes balance.
- Balance cushion - see how long you can balance for. Try one foot instead of two.
- Go for a bike drive, a scooter ride.
- Test your balancing skills by trying out some of these ideas. What other ways have you practiced balancing?
- Try the above ideas with a partner.
April 27 - May 1.
“I can track my progress on my own personal wellness plans."
- Work on your personal wellness plan. If you haven’t already created one at home, create one this week and fill in your results. Test yourself in a few weeks to see if you have improved. If you have already done it once, test yourself to see if you do better this time, than the first time. You can find this form at the top of the page.
- Work on the fitness test. See if you have improved.
- Work on your bowling skills. There are various ways you can do this.
- Be creative and find something to use as bowling pins. Some examples could be, empty cereal boxes, Kleenex boxes, water bottles, etc. Use any type of ball to use as your bowling ball.
- You could do “modified lawn bowling. You can find this game on the daily games page.
April 20 - 24
“I can visualize what a quality performance looks like to improve my skills."
- Continue working on your dance from last week. Try to master something you have been struggling with.
- Practice different sports at home. Use a soccer ball, basketball, volleyball, hockey stick and puck/ball, baseball, etc to work on different skills. Example, for soccer, practice running, kicking and shooting/passing.
April 14 - 17
“I can demonstrate fluid transitions between my dance steps."
- Search “Thunder Dance ” and see if you can learn the dance!
- Once you have learned the dance, see if you can teach it to family member.
- In March we discussed the four elements of dance and discussed the students were going to make up their own dance. They were all going to have to use the same song but now they can have the opportunity to choose their own song!
- Have your child pick a song and put together a dance using the four elements of dance, which are:
- Movements (swinging, hopping, skipping, etc)
- Level (high, medium, low)
- Pathway (straight, backwards, forwards, zig zag)
- Speed (fast, medium, slow)
- I would love to see the dances!
- Have your child pick a song and put together a dance using the four elements of dance, which are:
- Watch somebody else do one of the dance videos, and provide feedback.
April 6 -9
“I can use appropriate skills with activity specific equipment.”
- Try out the “Wall Scramble” game found on the “Daily Games” page. Remember skills you have learned, point your toe and point your hand at your target!
- Try out the “Bad Bugs’ game found on the “Daily Games” page. Keep an eye on your target, point your toe and hand where you are aiming!
- Do you have a soccer ball at home? Set up some different targets all spread out and see if you can knock them down. Use your skills you have learned this year!
- Do you have a volleyball or some kind of ball that will bounce? Practice volleying the ball up in the air. If you have an open wall you can use, practice volleying the ball on the wall, try not to let it hit the ground!
- Use different equipment you have at home and be creative!
- If you have a soccer ball at home, play a game of take away with somebody. Try to keep control of the ball, and pass into an open space and get there before your opponent!
- If you have a volleyball, ping pong or badminton rackets play with a partner. Make a pretend net. See if you can hit it to an open space on their side.
- You could have a challenge with a balloon. Take turns hitting it back and forth with a partner, try to be the last one to hit it before it hits the ground.
- You could make a racket using paper plates and popsicle sticks or other objects around the house. Hit an object back and forth using your “racket.” Try to place the object into an open space before your partner hits it.