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Set-up:

Fun with Fractions

A fun way to learn about fractions! 

Grade Level: 2-5

Equipment: 

• Pool Noodles cut into fractions sizes  (1, 1/2, 1/6, 1/4, 1/8)
• Super Straps and Belts
• Timer
• Pinnies for the taggers
• Skinny No-Kink Hoops 

Set-up #1 (for full class)

On one half of the gym, scatter the cut pool noodles. Choose 2 people to guard the noodles. Give every other student a Super Strap to wear. Set a timer for 3 minutes. how to play: When the teacher says go, all Super Strap wearers try to run to the other side and grab one noodle piece to bring back to their side, without losing their flag. You are not safe anywhere on that side of the gym.  Once you return back to your side, you put the noodle piece on the end line. You keep playing until the 3 minutes is up.  At that point, your team will add up the noodle pieces, stacking up the smaller pieces to equal 1. What is your grand total? Play again and beat that total. Choose new taggers (flag pullers). 

Set-up #2 (for 6 teams)

Put all the noodle pieces in the center circle. Put 6 hoops equally around the perimeter of the gym, and split the students onto teams. Choose one team to guard the circle and give them pinnies to wear. The taggers have to stay in the circle. Set a timer for 3 minutes. how to play: When the teacher says go, all flag belt wearers try to run to the circle and steal one piece of pool noodle to bring back to their hoop, without losing their flag. You are not safe in the circle, or even near it. If you can steal a piece, you bring it back to your hoop and go again. If you lose your flag, either before or after you steal a piece, you take it back, go back to your hoop, put it on, and try again. After 3 minutes, stop the game and ask the students to return to their hoop and add up their pieces. Stack them so they equal 1. What is your grand total? Whichever team has the most can be the next taggers.  variations: Travel to other side or circle using different locomotors.

Set up:

Flagby

Capture all the players from the other team behind your baseline! 

By Erin Sabyan

Objective:

Capture all the players from the other team behind your baseline.

Equipment:

• The Zone™ BIGFish Footballs Set of 6 (16093-PS)
• The Zone™ Super Straps & Flags - Medium (32266-PS) or Large (32267-PS) [1 belt/flag per student]
• Sleeve-Its™ (22112-PS) or Pinnies (22101-PS) [varies by class size]
• 9” Colored Cones (21048-PS) or 9” Rubber Spots (21026-PS) (quantity sufficient to mark boundaries)

Set Up:

• Play is set up on a volleyball sized court with cones or floor markers for the boundary.
• Players separate in to two teams using Sleeve-Its and or pinnies. 
• Each player wears one Super Strap & one Super Flag.
• Spread all six BIGFish throughout the playing area.

Gameplay:

• Game starts with all the players of each team starting on their own side of the court.
• Players try to pull the flags of the opposing team. When they accomplish this, they must drop the flag onto the ground so the opposing player can get pick it up and get it back. That player is then considered “caught” and must go behind the opposing team’s base line.
• Players can get out from behind the base line if a teammate tosses them a BIGFish. 

Note: Throwing the balls rugby style works the best and should be taught as a skill to learn. The player who has been captured must catch the BIGFish in the air to get out. After they catch the BIGFish, they perform a dropkick to kick the ball back into play. After the drop kick they come back in.

Note: Drop kicks involve a player dropping the ball and then kicking it when it bounces off the ground.

• Players cannot run with the BIGFish. They must throw them to advance them forward.
• If one team gets all the opposing players captured behind their base line, they are the winners.

Game Discussion:

This is a great strategy game and the students should be allowed 30 seconds between rounds to discuss team strategy. It is a good idea to designate players whose role it is to capture other players and have players designated to get their teammates back. Depending on the player’s ages, they will figure out this strategy on their own.

Set up:

Triangle Cannons

Get as many laps around the triangle as you can!

By KayDee Perry

Objective:

Get as many laps around the triangle as you can.

Equipment:

• The Zone ™ Cannon Launchers Set of 6 (16178-PS) [12 total]
• 9” Colored Cones (21048-PS) or 9” Rubber Spots (21026-PS) [18 total]
• 36” Standard Hoops Set of 12 (14034-PS) [6 total]
• Sleeve-Its™ (22112-PS) or Pinnies (22101-PS)

Equipment Note: All teams should color coordinate their equipment.

Set Up:

The playing area should be a large circle shape.
Create 6 triangles using 3 cones/markers each. Place the triangles evenly around the outer edge of the circle, with the triangle point facing away from the center. Each triangle should be a separate color that will coordinate with all other equipment used.
Place two cannons inside the top part of the triangle and load each cannon with 2 foam balls each.
Place one hoop in the middle of the triangle. 

Gameplay:

One player is selected to go first as the cannon launcher.  The other players start behind that player.  Play starts when the first player jumps/stomps on both cannons and launches the 4 balls into the center of the playing area. 

Note: All six teams are shooting the balls into the middle to make it harder to retrieve the correct color balls.

As soon as the balls are launched, the player who launched them starts running laps around their triangle and keeps tally of how many laps are run.  All of the other players have to retrieve all 4 of their team’s color balls from the circle center and place them into their hoop to end the round.  Then the player who ran the laps writes down their number.

The players take turns being the cannon launcher/runners.