Exercise Breaks

How to play

Create a pond for each child using a hula hoop or a chalk drawing on the ground. Talk about animals that live in ponds. Frogs live in ponds. They like to jump inside and outside of their pond all day long. Let’s pretend we are frogs living in our ponds.

• Everyone stand inside your pond. Now jump to the outside of your pond.
• Now jump inside the pond. Repeat 3–5 times.
• Now jump outside your pond. Can you jump in sideways? (You may need to show children how to jump sideways into pond.)
• It has been raining a lot and our pond is filled with water. You better jump out before you get too wet!
• Now let’s jump all the way around the outside of the pond as we look for some bugs to eat.
• This time, jump around the pond, jumping from the inside to the outside of the pond as you go. We might find bugs inside or outside the pond!
• We couldn’t find any bugs to eat in our pond. Maybe we’ll find some in our friends’ pond. Jump forward to a friend’s pond to see if you can find some bugs. Only one frog in each pond.
• Are there any bugs inside the pond? Jump in to see!
• Look – there’s a dead bug! Can you pretend to be a dead bug? (Instruct children to lie inside their hoop on their backs, with legs and arms in air wiggling about.)
• Everyone back on your feet. Now that we’ve eaten some bugs, let’s go for a swim in our pond.
• Now jump forward to your own pond. Let’s go for a swim! (Bend your legs and make breast-stroke swimming movements with your arms.)

Set Up For Success

Ensure activity space has an even surface.

Enrichment

Read Ribbit!: Flip and See Who Froggy Can Be by Bender & Bender.

Attention Teachers!

Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.

Teacher’s Weekly Log Form

Attention Teachers!

Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.

Teacher’s Weekly Log Form