K, 1st and 2nd grades are participating in Football Week. Class started with an instant activity "Native American Wrestling (ME/MS)" where we work on muscular strength, endurance, balance, and deception. Afterward, students learned where to place their dominant hand on a football, throw a spiral, and catch a football correctly in 1-2-3 football. We finished the class with an all class game that encourages students to run the football past the defenders to score a touchdown in Flag Football Tag.
3rd grade also participated in activities that focused around football. Student's reviewed how to grip the football, throw a spiral and different hand positions to catch the football. We learned these skills and positions while playing 1-2-3 football and ultimate football in teams.
4th, 5th finished up their football unit playing a modified version of Flag Football. The complexity of football rules were broken down throughout the games inorder to increase activity participation while learning about the game of football. Most of the classes ended with an all class game of Flag Football tag, focusing on agility, speed and deception.
6th, 7th and 8th grades began our two day flag football tournament which will end next week (weather permitting). Time was given for each team to come up with offensive plays before the game began. Many teams had fun creating and naming offensive plays and running them successfully against the defense. Rules of football are being explained and broken down between plays to encourage as much game time as possible and to help students to see how the rules fit into game situations. The top two teams will compete in the championship game while the other teams battle it out for 3rd and 4th place (time/weather permitting).
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