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🏃 Kindergarten · PES4.E1Unit 1: Personal space & safety

Start and stop signals

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🎯 Objective: Students respond to signals quickly.

Lesson outline

  1. Red light, green light.
  2. Whistle and drum signals.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: what does the whistle mean?

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

S4.E1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Move safely in general and personal space
  • Follow start/stop signals

✅ 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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