Patterns - Outcome A (K-3)-1

	Hopping
	Rat and Phil on Fundamental Skills

Spend time with children exploring basic locomotor steps (walk, run, skip, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, slither, creep, and crawl.) Display these words in the gymnasium, either on charts or a blackboard.

Have the children create a pattern using two or three of the words. They must perform each action four times before going on to the next word. For example, four running steps, followed by four jumps, and ending with four leaps.

Encourage the children to vary their shapes, level, direction and pathway.

Levels, Shapes, Directions and Pathways

Have the students demonstrate their patterns to a partner or to the class. See if the other students can identify the locomotor words that would describe these patterns.

Print words on cards and randomly hand out the cards for the students to perform. Include criteria on the cards such as:

• Leaping - done in a backward direction.
• Hopping - done in a zigzag pathway.
• Creeping - done at a low level.

By using the cards students create a pattern.

These are clues that you have reached the outcomes ...

Children perform the locomotor words in such a way that they are easily distinguishable.

Patterns are clear.

Other children can identify the locomotor words being demonstrated. This activity also helps students achieve the outcomes of C (communication) and D (effort).

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