Skipping

Looking around the playground on morning duty I saw the cutest, most lovely interactions between the kids playing really old fashioned games my grandparents possibly played- elastics, handball, a cup and clapping game I couldn't quite work out and skipping.

As it's sports day tomorrow and there's a whole crate full of skipping ropes in the sports press, I thought I'd drag them out and allow the kids of various abilities to have a go. I've numbered the activities from easiest to most difficult:

1. Snake- for kindy and kids who need lots of scaffolding. Two kids just wobble the rope on the ground for the jumper to hop over

2. Individual  jumping backwards and forwards, try it hopping and jumping

3. Individual cross over with rope 

 

4. Big rope start in middle

5. Big rope run in

6. Double dutch

Easy as pie PE lessons the kids have a chance to goal set and chose their own challenges. They can also make up their own little poems and chants as they go.