St. Patrick's Day Tag - "Lucky Charm Tag"

St. Patrick's Day Tag - "Lucky Charm Tag"

For a printable for this game click "Lucky Charm Tag".

Equipment Needed:
2-3 Tagging Sticks (We use small pieces of pool noodles or yarn balls)
1 Bucket (preferably green)
15-20 “lucky charms” such as paper shamrocks, gold coins, beanbags, small balls, etc.
1 picture of a rainbow to tape to the wall

Description of Activity:
This is a continuous tag game with no safe.  Students start scattered anywhere in the gym. Taggers start on the endline.  When the music begins, everyone begins moving around the area.  

Taggers are called Leprechauns.  They hold the tagging noodles to tag players.  The Lucky Charmer is the person who carries the bucket with lucky charms in it.  

If a player is tagged, they sit down and wait for the Lucky Charmer to bring them a Lucky Charm.  Tagged players put their lucky charm in the pot at the end of the rainbow, then return to playing tag.  

Notes:
Play 2-3 minute games, then stop to choose new taggers and a new person to be the “lucky charmer”.  


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P.E. Game for St. Patrick's Day - Shamrock Relay

St. Patrick's Day P.E. Game - Hide and Seek Shamrock Relay

For a printable page for this game, please click the link "Hide and Seek Shamrock Relay".

I found these cute shamrocks from the Dollar Store!

Equipment Needed:
5 buckets or boxes (one for each team)
75 + shamrock cut-outs (or other small green object like puff balls, bean bags, etc)
20 + cones or domes  ( I like these domes the best)

Intro:
Take a minute to talk about St. Patrick’s Day.....tell the students some leprechauns came in the gym and hid a bunch of shamrocks/lucky four leaf clovers for them!  

Description of Activity:
This is a continuous relay race that keeps going until all of the shamrocks have been collected.  I use the width of the gym and make groups of 3-4 students.  Give each group a bucket to leave by the side wall to collect their shamrocks.  Students take turns running to find a shamrock.  When they lift up a dome to peek, they should put it back down to hide any remaining shamrocks.

Set-Up:
Using the width of the gym, set a bucket near the wall for each group.  On the other side wall, scatter the cones/domes and hide shamrocks under them.  Hide about 5 under each dome.  

Rules:
Students must wait their turn to run (groups of 3 are best so kids are not standing in line too long).  When it’s their turn, the student runs to the other side of the gym, peeks under a dome and takes ONE shamrock, then run back to their team’s bucket to drop it in.  Then the student gets back in line for another turn to run.   If a dome is EMPTY, the student may flip it over so other students don’t continue to look under that dome.  

Notes:
When all of the shamrocks are collected, groups may count their shamrocks or sort them by color, size, etc if you are using a variety of different shamrocks.  (see my pictures of the glittery and striped shamrocks).  They may also count how many total shamrocks their team collected.  Have students hide shamrocks for the next class (tell them how many to put under each dome so you don’t have many empty and others with too many).  

You could also substitute skipping, galloping, crab walk, riding scooters, etc. instead of running.  



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P.E. Tumbling, Body Bowling, Scooter Game

Check out what the students did this week in P.E. class!  For a description of the activity, please click on any of the highlighted items.  Pics and videos are also below!

Kindergarten:  We had a day of fun fitness games including 1) Popcorn Warm-Up, 2)  Puppies Tag, 3) Hungry Hippos Scooter Game.  

2nd Graders:  1)  Popcorn Warm-Up Game,  2)  Puppies Tag with additional exercises, 3)  Tumbling Activities / Body Bowling and 4) "Aviators" Game

ECSE Students:  1)  Move and Stretch Warm-Up, 2) Tumbling / Obstacle Course, 3)  Scooter Snowflakes Game

Body Bowling - Log Roll

Body Bowling - Somersault

POPCORN Warm-Up Game

HUNGRY HIPPOS Scooter Game

This video is "Roll-Run-Jump" Tumbling Activity. A quick and easy way for students to practice their log and pencil rolls.
Video of 2nd graders practicing Somersaults. Our cue words were "Frog, Tuck, Roll" (Frog position is squatting down with hands and feet close together, looking between your legs). Remind students to flip over and roll on their backs, not their heads.

Video of Puppy Tag - "Dog Catchers" try to tag puppies. If a puppy is tagged, they have to go back to their cage (floor mat)

P.E. Centers, Scooter Games, Somersaults

Zinser 2nd Graders:
Last week 2nd graders played:

 Speedway, Popcorn, Jump Rope, and a new game called Aviator.

Video of Speedway Warm-up Game:


Early Childhood Center:
Some of my classes have been playing "Scooter Ships".  Here is a video clip of this.

  Kindergarten doing a variety of centers!
Close up of Obstacle Course 


1st Day Teaching Somersaults to Pre-K Students



Picture of "Scooter Snowflakes"Game

P.E. Pictures - Tumbling, Scooter Ships

 Scooter ships!  This was FUN and the kids did great!

Kindergarten students doing Pencil and Log Rolls

 Obstacle course - Jumping with 2 feet in tires, balance beam and bear walking back to end of the line.   

 Paper Plate Ice Skating

PE Jump Rope Videos, Balloon Activities and Ice Skating

AB Pattern with Balloons "RIGHT HAND - LEFT HAND.etc."  
AB Pattern with Balloons "FINGER-ELBOW. FINGER-ELBOW" 

Ice skating with "WINTER HATS"
2nd Grade Jump Rope Day 1

Learning the Criss Cross!
"Snake in the Grass" and "Ocean Waves"