Instant Activity

Choose six exercises or sports movements. These should be ones students are familiar with, in order to save time. Assign each a number on the die (see "materials" above); hang the big poster for all to see.

To begin, have one child roll the die. The number rolled will correspond with an exercise on the poster. Begin the music and class does the exercise as long as the music plays (15 or so seconds). The next child rolls the die and when the music begins, the class does that exercise for 15 seconds, etc. If the same number is rolled twice in a row, the next exercise is a "free choice" as designated by the person who rolled the die.

Instead of doing the activity as a whole group, you can provide a die for each small group (6 in a group). When the music begins, all groups do the exercise which corresponds to the number rolled for their group. This will give all children an opportunity to roll the die.