Tennis Ball warm up

Tennis Ball P.F.A. warm up

Length of Activity: 10-20 minutes

Optimal Student Grade Level: 2-6

Steve’s Notes: Set the number of reps on each station that it takes to get a tennis ball. Example words to spell out: Reps, Pace, Kick, NCAA, coed, etc.

Equipment:

Have a couple 100 tennis balls / buckets and a few jump ropes.

Cup size example

Tennis ball just fits in a yogurt cup.
Makes for some great-active-fun lessons.

Rep – Goals

Parallel Bar – 1 = one ball

Full Pull Up – 1 = one ball

Mod Pull Up – 1 = one ball

Sit ups – 10 = one ball

Steps – 30 = one ball

V-Bar – 3 = one ball

Pole Climb = red = two balls (w/ safe dismount)

Pole Climb = yellow = one ball

Horizontal Ladder – down & up with one ground touch = one ball

1/4 mile jog = three balls

1/8 mile jog = 2 balls

Rope jump – 50 (by yourself) = two balls

Teacher chooses the word to be spelled.

Once a child completes the "rep goal" on any station, they run and get a tennis ball and take it to the "spell area" and put it where they think it will help spell the word.

Once word is spelled to the point that it is readable, have the class do a brief (small or large group) discussion on the Physical Educational meaning of the word. Once that is done, go on to another activity.