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"We are going to start off with a warm up tag game called Alphabet Tag. When I say go I would like all of you to spread out in general space at least arms length apart.

Would Eloise and Todd please put on a pinnie? You two will start as our taggers. When Eloise or Todd tag you please freeze as soon as you can, make a letter with your body and wait until a free runner comes by and stands in front of you.

You can run free again after the free runner correctly guesses your letter. You are not allowed to make a letter that has you lay on the floor. Illegal letters are "T", "X", "I", and "L". In a few minutes we will have new taggers and continue playing. Taggers aren't allowed to tag you while you are in the process of guessing and modeling your letter. Let's start off by walking and then move to different locomotor movements.

NOTE: This would be a good time to have the kids take their pulse. Take it again at end of game and then move on with the lesson.

Caution: Please have students walk in general space before trying to run and do this activity. As you see them get more adept at moving through space then you can add more difficult locomotor movements like skipping, sliding, and/or skipping.

Submitted by Mark Manross who is a doctoral student in the Health and PE program at Virginia Tech. Thanks for your contribution to PE Central!

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