Agility Box

 

AGILITY BOX

Shared by Silvia González:

Each student has to choose one square on the floor (if there are not squares, you can draw it with chalk). 

They have to read different challenges from a piece of paper on the wall to do with their feet on the square at their own pace. The challenges last one minute each one. 

For example, the first one is: “Step forward-backward, stepping on the corners and raising your knees”. 

The second one is: “Jump with both feet at the same time out-in” 

Once they get the first challenge, each student has to find another classmate to do the first challenge together at the same time. 

So, they have to say sentences like: “Can you do the first challenge with me?” or “Shall we do the first challenge?” or “Let’s do the first challenge”, for example.

Then both have to do the first challenge on two different squares at the same time. They must do every challenge with a different classmate. 

They are speaking all the time before doing the challenge, and during the challenge because they have to agree on the rhythm and which foot starts…

Each student has a piece of paper where they have to write a cross when they get a challenge alone (the first one, the second one, the third one…) and when they do a challenge with a classmate, they have to write the classmate’s name.

When they get all the challenges (there are twenty), each student has to make up one challenge, write it on a piece of paper and explain it to the rest of the group. And all the group, at the same time, has to do the challenge that he or she explained. 

The activity finishes when all the students do all the challenges that each student made up.

Harriet Thomson:

You could also integrate different skills into the game.

For example: 

- Spell the word trampoline as you jump up and down or

- Skip with a rope as you say the months of the year backwards! or

- Demonstate 3 different stretches for your back muscles.