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🏃 Kindergarten · PES1.E5Unit 5: Cooperative games & dance

Creative movement

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🎯 Objective: Students move to music, showing tempo and feeling.

Lesson outline

  1. Animal dances.
  2. Music changes.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: move to slow music.

Lesson 2 of 3 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.E5

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Work with partners and groups
  • Move to music and rhythm

✅ 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 “Cooperative games & dance”

  1. Parachute games
  2. Creative movement
  3. Good sports

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