Pre-school PE Lesson Ideas

Name of Activity: Shape Find

Academic content: math (shapes and colors)

Purpose of Activity: This activity is to teach/reinforce basic locomotor skills (e.g. walking, jumping, gallopping, skipping, running) while using matching and naming skills for shapes and colors.

Prerequisites: The students should be able to match colors and/or shapes. The students should be able to mimic motor skills.

Suggested Grade Level: PreK-2

Materials Needed: One large cut-out and laminated shape of each: square, circle, triangle, oval, rectangle, star, diamond, heart. Each shape should be a different color.
Twenty small cut-out and laminated shapes that correspond to the large shapes.
Tape
Music or other cue

Physical activity: locomotor skills

Description of Idea

Assessment Ideas:

After each locomotor skill has been introduced and practiced, the students can be observed when the skills are called again to check the level of learning. If the activity is played with calling the shape or color, the teacher can observe to see if those concepts are learned by watching the students listening and matching skills.