Warm up
Ask children to sit in a space and explain that each gymnastics
lesson will start with a warm up. Discuss the importance of warming
up their bodies.
Children walk around the room following the teacher
who moves in different pathways. They copy the teacher who sometimes
touches a wall or other things around the room with a body
part. Children repeat this activity but jog around the room
themselves, touching things with different parts of their body but
making sure they do not bump into anyone.
Floor Work
Explain that in this lesson we will be thinking about using space
and using it safely. Ask children to stand, stretch out their arms
and turn around slowly. Emphasise that they are in a space if they
can do this without touching anyone.
Ask children to travel around
the room making patterns with their feet - curly lines, straight
lines, zig zag lines etc. Tell them that when you call 'stop' they
must stop in a space and check by stretching out their arms and
turning around slowly. Tell children to run in and out of each other
using all the space in the room. Encourage them to change direction
but they must ensure they do not bump into each other. On 'stop'
children stand quite still just like a statue. Repeat this a few
times asking children to 'stop' in a wide shape, narrow shape, spiky
shape etc. Tell children to sit down in a space, reminding them to
hold out their arms and gently move them around their bodies to
check they are in a space of their own. Explain that they are going
to run in and out of all the spaces again but this time on stop they
must make their body as small as they can, pulling everything in
tightly. Practice this a few times and tell children that we call
this a 'curled' shape. Repeat this activity but this time ask
children to stop and make their body as big as they can. Encourage
them to stretch out as far as they can, right to the tips of their
fingers and toes so they feel really big. Tell them we call this a
'stretched' shape.
Small
Apparatus
Each child should take a hoop and sit inside it in a space of their
own. Ask children to find different ways of moving around their
hoop. On 'stop' children should jump inside their hoop and curl up
small. Repeat this by moving around the hoop in a different way.
Give children opportunities to make both curled and stretched shapes
inside the hoop. Ask children to find ways to get to the other side
of the hoop. Tell them they can land inside the hoop to cross to the
other side or challenge them to reach the other side by not letting
any part of their body go inside the hoop. Give children plenty of
time to find different ways. Look out for some different ways and
ask these children if they would be willing to demonstrate what they
are doing.
Stop the class and ask some volunteers to show the rest of
the class the ways they have found to get across the hoop. Discuss
the shapes that their bodies made as they crossed to the other side.
Were they stretched or curled? What parts of their bodies did they
use? Were the movements slow or fast? Give children a few more
minutes to copy movements that other children have made and improve
the quality and control of their own work.
Cool Down
Ask children to stand inside their hoops and stretch their bodies as
high as they can then slowly sink into the hoop in a curled shape.
Ask them to lie beside their hoop and tense all their muscles so
that their bodies feel tight and then gradually relax them. Tell
children to lay still and remind them of things they have done in
the lesson. Ask if anyone has noticed change in their bodies and
discuss why this is. Walk around the class touching children. On the
touch they should quietly put their hoop away and stand quite still
in the line, ready to go back to class.
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