Tagged with 'Exer-Dice'

Set-up:

Spelling Superstars

Spell a sight word by touching the alphabet poly spots while doing a jog or skill! 

Objective:
To spell a sight word by touching the alphabet poly spots while doing a jog or skill.

Equipment:

• 1 set of Alphabet Poly Spots (70061-PS)
• Many copies of grade specific sight or high frequency words
• 6-12 The Zone™ Exer-dice (16982-PS)
• Other equipment (based on your skill)

Set-up:
Scatter the alphabet poly spots all over the gym. Put the dice on an end wall. Put the word cards on a table or in a hoop on the floor.

How to Play:

• Have each student select one word card.
• They will travel around the gym looking for the correct letters that go with their spots.
• For example, if your word is cat, you will jog and touch the letter C, then the A, and then finally the T with your foot. You don’t need to stop for long at the letters.
• Once you complete a word, you earn a roll of the dice. Roll the dice, do the exercise 10 times.
• Choose a new card and repeat the process until your time is up or you run out of cards. Depending on the number of word cards you have, you could have your students keep the words in their hand an continue collecting them, or you can have them return them to the pile and select a new card.

Variations:
Do the activity with a piece of equipment. If you are in your soccer unit, have the students dribble a ball from spot to spot to spell the word.
Do with math equations (1+3=4) by using numbered poly spots on the floor.

• Students should take turns with each job when they are ready to try to go across the gym again.
• Students should not touch other team’s cubes at any time.
• Students will take the first sight word card they touch. Remind them not to spend much time in the sight word card area. Remind 2nd – 3rd grade students to not repeat sight words.
• Each student gets to choose the exercise to complete for their sight word card AND the WHOLE team must complete the exercise.

Set up:

Cardio Spelling

Get your heart pumping while practicing spelling! For grades 2 and up.

Grade Level:

2nd grade and up

Equipment:

• Poly Spots (Enough to put four spots with four students) (21026-PS)
• Spelling Words on Cards/sheets
• The Zone™ Dry Erase Boards (21202-PS)
• Dry Erase Markers
• Dry Eraser
• 6 Sports Health™ Nexus Hurdles (16720-PS)
• 6 The Zone™ Exer-Dice (16982-PS)
• 6 balls to plank over
• A to Z Poly Spots (70061-PS)

How to Play:

• Split students into groups of four
• At the start of each lane (group), the first student will start on their poly spot
• The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th students will be spaced out along the gym floor on their poly spot. Each spot has a different exercise/activity.
• To start, the students on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th poly spots start exercising. The teacher will give student 1 the spelling word; they look at the word and put it on the ground.
• Person 1 jogs to Person 2 and tells them the first letter of the spelling word, person 2 jogs to person 3 and tells them the letter and person 3 jogs to person 4 and tells them the letter. Person 4 then writes the letter down on the dry erase board (kind of like old school spelling).
• Once each person is told the letter, they do that exercise until they are visited again with the next letter
• After person four writes down the letter, they head back to the beginning to get the next letter and the process begins again. This occurs until the entire word is written.

 
Adaptation:
Do the entire word instead of each letter, instead of running to the next spot, do a locomotor movement, give several exercises at each spot.

Set up:

Number Madness

Collect popsicle sticks by finding the sum of the two numbers that were rolled using the dice!

Equipment:

• 12-30” Skinny No-Kink Hoops for every 2-3 students (groups can be larger) scattered (14029-PS)
• 2 Foam Dice in each hoop (24 dice) 4 sets of (15034-PS)
• Laminated signs with #’s 1-12 (or higher if you use multiplication)
• 2 sets of The Zone™ Cone Folders (21192-PS)
• 12 Cones (21162-PS)
• Colored Wood Sticks
• 6 The Zone™ Exer-Dice (16982-PS)
• 2 sets of The Zone™ Cone Toppers and White Boards (21205-PS)
• 2 20” The Zone™ Adjustable Round Base Goals (17278-PS)
• 2 DodgeBee (11068-PS)
• 12 The Zone™ Buckets (15607-PS)
• 3 The Zone™ POWERGRIP™ Soccer Balls (50443-PS)

Set-Up:

• Place the 12 buckets and stations signs around the perimeter.
• Put the hoops in the center. In each hoop put a whiteboard, marker and two dice.
• 2-3 students at each hoop.

How to Play:

• Two people to a hoop
• Each hoop contains a white board and two dice
• Students take turns rolling dice (each rolls one dice)
• Students add the two dice together (older students can multiply the dice together) You can use the whiteboard to write out the problem.
• Students run to the number on the wall which is the sum of their two dice
• Once at the sum (# on the wall) they must do the exercise that it says to do then grab a stick out of the bucket below and return to their hoop with their stick.

Set up:

Multiplication Stations

Send students to do a multiplication problem, then they do their sport skill and fitness skills at each station.

Grade: 4 and up

Equipment Needed:

• 12 The Zone™ Exer-Dice Set of 6 (16982-PS)
• 24 The Zone™ Soft Touch No Sting Volleyball Set of 6 (33621-PS)
• 6 No-Kink 30” Hoops (14014-PS)
• 8 posters (see graphic)-use large chart paper so everyone can see

Set-Up:

• Hang up the 8 posters, 2 in each corner of the gym.
• Place 3 dice, 3 volleyballs, and 3 hula hoops under each poster.

How to Play:

You can have students travel alone or in partner pairs, and use any specific equipment you might be working on in PE already.

You can tell each student or partner pair a number to start at so they are all not starting at number 1.

Send the students the corners to get started. They do their multiplication problem, then they do their sport skill and fitness skill that many times. Then they move to the next poster and do the same number there. They keep moving around the room until time is up.