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🏃 2nd Grade · PES1.E2Unit 2: Locomotor skills

Gallop and slide

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🎯 Objective: Students gallop and slide sideways.

Lesson outline

  1. Horse races.
  2. Slide like a crab.
  3. Music game.
  4. Exit: show a slide.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

S1.E2

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Hop, gallop, jog, slide, skip and leap with mature patterns

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

⏲️ Stopwatch👥 Team generator⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Locomotor skills”

  1. Hop and jump
  2. Gallop and slide
  3. Skip
  4. Locomotor obstacle course

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