GRADE

TOPIC

UNIT

Kindergarten

Body Parts & Bean Bags

Body Awareness

Equipment Needed

• Cones
• Spots
• Music Player
• Bean Bags

Content Standard Benchmarks or Common Core Standards

Learning Goals, Objectives, Expected Outcomes

Psychomotor

1. Move around the space without touching each other.
2. Play safely
3. Play within the boundaries.
4. Place the bean bag on appropriate body parts when instructed to.
5. Travel, while balancing the bean bag on various body parts.
6. Stop and put the bean bag when given the signal.

Cognitive

1. Choose at least three different body parts to balance the bean bag on.
2. Verbally describe the body part they are balancing the bean bag on.

Affective

1. Have Fun
2. Play cooperatively with classmates while playing frozen bean bag.

ACTIVITY

SETUP, DESCRIPTION, DIAGRAMS, TEACHING TIPS

Entrance Routine

Part 1

Warm-up/Review

You can use the Bean Bag Song to pre-assess the children’s body awareness of their individual body parts.

Part 2

New skill or concept

Traveling with the bean bag balancing on various body parts

• Show me how you can balance the bean bag on your shoulder and travel around our space.
• Can you balance the bean bag on your knee?
• How about your hand!?
• Balance the bean bag on your back.
• Now try to balance it on your shin! What’s a shin? I will show them what a shin is.
• Balance the bean bag on your stomach.
• What’s another body part we can balance the bean bag on? (Elbow, Bottom, Ear, Hip, Foot, Hand) Let’s try it.
• Move around with them, watching to see what a good job they are doing, and praise them for it.
• Stop. Great job stopping!! (Have the class call out the parts to balance the bean bag on at least 2-3 times).

Part 3

Practice

Problem Solving and Cooperative Skills

(Do this activity at least three or four times.)

Frozen Bean Bag

Begin with everyone having a bean bag on their head. The bean bag is the battery.

Without it the students have no power to move around. They may not touch their own battery. As they move around the space, they will try not to let the bean bag fall off their heads. If it does fall off, they must remain frozen in place until someone who has their battery intact, comes to save them. They must place the bean bag back on the frozen persons head. If the bean bag falls off the head of the helper, they are frozen too, and must wait for someone to help them before they can continue to help the person they were helping! The students may not cause other peoples bean bags to fall off on purpose, since that is defeating the whole idea of the game.

Hint: Suggest to the class that they will either all win or not win as a team. If at the end of the activity, everyone has their bean bag on their head, the whole class wins. So try to help people as quickly as possible.

As the game goes on, call out different parts to place the battery.

Call out the various body parts the children are balancing the bean bag on.

Call out the cool ways you see the children traveling as they are balancing the bean bag.

Stretching & closure

Review