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Date:
Time: 1-1-:20 Overview: This physical activity game combines the practicing of
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motor skills and fitness with the learning of the alphabet.
Learning Outcomes:
Early Literacy
General Outcome: The child listens, speaks, reads, writes, views, and represents to explore
thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
o Specific Outcome: Combines ideas- connects related ideas and information
o Specific Outcome: Extends understandings- expresses interest in new ideas and
experiences
General Outcome: The child listens, speaks, reads, writes, views, and represents to comprehend
and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts
o Specific Outcome: Uses prior knowledge- connects oral language with print and pictures
o Specific Outcome: Uses references- recites letters of the alphabet in order
General Outcome: The child listens, speaks, reads, writes, views and represents to manage ideas
and information
o Specific Outcome: Organizes information- categorizes objects and pictures according to
visual similarities and differences
Environment and Community Awareness
General Outcome: The child demonstrates curiosity, interest, and a willingness to learn about the
environment and community
o The child shows awareness of similarities and differences in living things, objects, and
materials
o The child demonstrates awareness of the properties of objects and events in the
environment by:
Matching objects or events as being the same or as going together
Distinguishing between similar objects, based on one or more characteristics
General Outcome: The child uses materials in the environment and community and becomes
aware of how others use materials
o The child demonstrates some ways of organizing materials (e.g., collecting, arranging,
creating, and transporting)
Personal and Social Responsibility
General Outcome: The child contributes to group activities
o The child joins in some small and large group games and activities
o The child identifies and demonstrates etiquette and fair play
o The child experiences different roles in a variety of physical activities
o The child displays a willingness to play alongside others
Physical Skills and Well-Being
General Outcome: The child acquires basic locomotor, nonlocomotor and manipulative skills
through developmentally appropriate movement activities in a variety of environments
o The child experiences and develops locomotor skills through a variety of activities, e.g.,
walking, running, hopping, jumping, leaping, rolling skipping, galloping, climbing, sliding
o The child experiences and develops nonlocomotor skills through a variety of activities, e.g.,
turning, twisting, swinging, balancing, bending, landing, stretching, curling
o The child experiences and develops ways to receive (e.g., catching, collecting), retain (e.g.,
carrying, bouncing), and send (e.g., throwing, kicking) an object using a variety of body parts
and implements and through a variety of activities
General Outcome: The child develops fine motor and perceptual motor skills through
participation in a variety of activities
o The child develops fine motor skills involving finger speed, arm steadiness, arm and hand
precision, finger and hand dexterity, and t he manipulation of small materials
o The child develops perceptual-motor skills through activities involving eye-hand coordination
(e.g., looking at picture books, stringing beads, cutting, pasting, drawing, collage work)
General Outcome: The child develops attitudes and behaviours that promote a healthy lifestyle,
wellness and safety for self and others
o The child recognizes improvement in physical abilities
o The child experiences cardio-respiratory activities
o The child experiences how physical activity makes one feel
o The child experiences the changes that take place in the body during physical activity
o The child demonstrates an understanding of basic rules and fair play
General Outcome: The child assumes responsibility to lead an active way of life
o The child shows a willingness to participate regularly in short periods of activity with frequent
rest intervals
o The child participates with effort in physical activities
o The child shows a willingness to listen to directions and simple explanations
o The child experiences moving safely and sensitively through all environments (e.g.,
movement activities)
o The child participates in a class activity with a group goal (e.g., walk a predetermined
distance)
Prior Learning: Learning to recognize the appearance of capital and lower case letters; running;
bending over; listening to and following simple directions
Associated Vocabulary
Materials and Resources
Letters of the alphabet
School gym
Letter posters for the letters A, B, C, D, E, F,
G, H
10 large alphabet letters for each A, B, C, D,
E, F, G, H. Letters take the form of laminated
cutouts and foam pieces.
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Teacher Activity
Student Activity
Resource
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Setu Teacher posts letter posters on gym walls,
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Letter
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each with a hula hoop underneath it. Teacher
posters,
then spreads out all the large letters around
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thy gym floor.
hoops
Listen to directions and respond to
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Introduce the game to the students and give prompts about instructions
directions: Today we are going to play a
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