{"id":9769,"date":"2017-08-31T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:50:40","slug":"locomotor-city-activity-for-physical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/locomotor-city-activity-for-physical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotor City Activity for Physical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/locomotor-city-cones-e15040242279731.png\" alt=\"locomotor city cones\" width=\"700\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Locomotor City is a culminating activity I play with my K-2 students to reinforce and allow autonomy in their learning. The activity combines skill practices of locomotor movements, pathways, levels, fitness skills, directions, rule following, social skills and a host of other physical education elements, all combined into one collective activity.<\/p>\n<p>Students are responsible for their own time management as they complete the activity. The idea is to travel in and out of the city, completing as many of the different activities as they can during the allotted time period. I play lots of upbeat music to encourage high intensity play and add excitement to the already charged atmosphere in the room. At the end of the class period, we all cool down by walking with a friend around the outside of the city, and sharing what activities we did, what was our favorite and what new skill we learned.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Equipment Used:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/coach-instructor-resources\/flags-cones-spot-markers\/spot-markers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poly spots<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=pennant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pennant flags<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=river+stones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">River stones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/coach-instructor-resources\/flags-cones-spot-markers\/floor-tape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Floor tape<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/item\/paper-plates-PE126C\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paper plates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/hoops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hoops<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/jump-ropes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jump ropes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/active-play\/scooters-ride-ons\/scooter-boards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scooters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/coach-instructor-resources\/flags-cones-spot-markers\/cones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/item\/cone-topper-street-sign-board-inserts-W10664\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Street signs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction to Students:\u00a0Welcome to Locomotor City!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We created this city for you to enjoy lots of choices of movement activities. We want to see you using all the skills we have covered over the last two weeks. We hope to see lots of skipping, jogging, galloping, hopping, jumping, leaping and walking. Our city has a sidewalk that you must use to visit all the areas inside the city. You also must use the correct doors to enter and exit the city. Speed limit signs are posted as well as park signs that tell you the major skill for that area. Use your knowledge of general and self-space to keep you and your friends safe as you travel in and out of the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/locomotor-city-activity1.jpg\" alt=\"locomotor city activity\" width=\"540\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Locomotor City Activity Set Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I create the city by making a &#8220;fence&#8221; using strings of pennant flags around the perimeter of the gym, leaving room around the outside for kids to travel around the &#8220;outside of the city&#8221;. Create an opening at each end of the &#8220;fence&#8221; for entering and exiting the city. Inside the fence, I create different movement activities that allow multiple opportunities for practice of space awareness, traveling, taking turns, sharing, levels and pathways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/locomotor-city-PE1.png\" alt=\"locomotor city PE\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Locomotor City Activities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Feel free to adapt and create activities that work for your classroom and student needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outside the Fence\/Perimeter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Faster locomotor movements<\/span>: jogging, skipping and galloping. Movement is one way only.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sidewalk<\/span>: double black line down the center of the gym designates the &#8220;sidewalk&#8221; area for walking to and from different activities\/parks<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cIn&#8221; door<\/span>: opening at one end of fences for students to enter the city<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;Out&#8221; door<\/span>: opening at opposite end of fences for exiting back out to the highway. Inside the fence\/perimeter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cInside the City\u201d Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bunny Trail<\/span>: hopping pathways made with poly spots<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ocean Jumping<\/span>: shark poly spots, poly spots, river stones, step boxes: jump and leap from rock to rock avoiding the &#8220;ocean&#8221;\/floor<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ice Pond<\/span>: blue floor tape to create a pond, paper plates for ice skates: sliding, twirling, backward\/forward\/sideways, alone or with a friend.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pathway Balancing Lines<\/span>: colored floor tape in zig zag, curvy and straight pathways for walking<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hula Hoop Park<\/span>: for hoop skill practice<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jump Rope Lane<\/span>: for jump rope practice<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scooter Alley<\/span>: bottom down-leg strength, stomach down-arm strength<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hopscotch Park<\/span>: hoping skills, patterns<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Walking Trail<\/span>: a second fence runs parallel to the flag fence and completely encircles the city: for walking only. Walking one way around the trail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the video of my students doing the Locomotor City activity:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Locomotor City in action! Love my job! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/physed?src=hash\">#physed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhysEdDepot\" class=\"broken_link\">@PhysEdDepot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X6M5tepFC6\">pic.twitter.com\/X6M5tepFC6<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 Kelly Brown Ed.S (@LovePrimaryPE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LovePrimaryPE\/status\/898350674165063680\">August 18, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9836 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kelly-brown-PE-teacher-11.png\" alt=\"locomotor pe activity\" width=\"241\" height=\"244\" \/>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Brown is currently in her 28th year teaching Physical Education and Health at Morgan County Primary School. She teaches 750 K-2 students each week. She was the recipient of the MCPS Teacher of the Year Award in 2014. She recently completed her Educational Specialist degree in Curriculum and Instruction 2016. She has presented at the Share the Wealth Physical Education Conference at Jekyll Island and has published activities in the physical education magazine, Great Activities. She loves to be creative with her students and constantly strives to create a classroom culture of learning with joy and excitement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locomotor City is a culminating activity I play with my K-2 students to reinforce and allow autonomy in their learning. 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