Second Grade PE Week One

Learning Goals for Unit:

Students live an active lifestyle and know how to stay fit and healthy.

Students can travel in a variety of movement patterns, levels, and pathways. 

Students can describe the enjoyment and/or challenge of participating in various physical activities.

Health Focus: Wash your Hands

It is important to stay healthy. Each week we will focus on a health topic to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

This weeks focus:  Washing Hands

When should you wash your hands?

• Wash your hands before, during,  and after cooking food
• Wash your hands before eating
• After you have been outside or in a public space
• Before and after caring for someone who is sick
• After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
• Before and after treating a cut or wound
• After using the bathroom
• After touching an animal or pet, animal feed, or animal waste
• After touching garbage

Click the picture below for a rap/video provided by Hip Hop Public Health. Hip Hop Public health has launched the 20 Seconds or more video and resources to help empower children and families with information, tools, and resources to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

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Learning Targets for Movement Patterns:

• I can travel in a variety of locomotor movement patterns. 

Success Criteria:

• I can identify different locomotor movements.
• I can travel in different locomotor movements. 

• I can rate activities based on my level of enjoyment.
  

Activities for Movement Patterns:

Warm-Up Activity - Stretching - Video
Click the picture below to stretch your body and get warmed up!

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Activity 1- Introduction to Movement Patterns- Video

There are a lot of different ways you can move. Click the picture below and learn more about different locomotor movement patterns. 

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Activity 2- Locomotor and Non-Locomotor Movement Dance - Video
Directions: Moving your body from one space to another is a locomotor movement. There are other movements you can do that are non-locomotor movements too. Pick either video below and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
Click Watch the video below.

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Activity 3- Locomotor and Non-Locomotor Movement Dance - Video
Directions: Moving your body from one space to another is a locomotor movement. There are other movements you can do that are non-locomotor movements too. Non-locomotor movements are when the whole body and body parts do not cause the body to travel to another space.   Can you spot the differences in the video? Pick either video below and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

Click Watch the video below.

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Cool-Down Activity - Mindfulness: Square Breathing - Video
Click the picture below after you have completed some exercises or anytime you wish to practice mindful breathing.

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Reflect about Movement Patterns:
You can share your thoughts about these activities with your teacher if you would like, but it is not required.

Question 1 - Identifying
Which locomotor movements did you travel from one room to the next?
(example: walking, skipping, jumping, hopping)

What movement was the quickest? Why?

What movement was the slowest? Why?

Question 2 - Enjoyment:
Which locomotor movement did you enjoy? Why?


Which locomotor movement did you dislike? Why?

Vocabulary for Movement Patterns:

Locomotor: movements where the body travels from one location to another.

Non-locomotor: the whole body and body parts do not cause the body to travel to another space

Movement: change of location or position 

Travel: to move in a constant direction or way

Enjoyment: To take pleasure from an activity