ACTIVITIES IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM

Prepared By: Casey L. BanuganBSED-MAPEH

Activities in the Elementary School Program

• The specific activities in the elementary school program are classified in six main phases or categories as follows:

A. Developmental ActivitiesB. Simple Games (Group Games)C. Rhythmic ActivitiesD. Educational GymnasticsE. Sports-type Games (Lead-up Games)F. Athletic Sports

A. Developmental Activities

1. Perceptual-motor Learning. These develop neuromuscular coordination.

2. Posture and body mechanics. Posture refers to habitual or assumed alignment of the main segments of the body while standing, sitting, or lying position.• Body mechanics is the use of the body which has its basis in good

posture. 3. Basic movement skillsThese includes locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative activities.

B. Simple Games (Group Game)

1. Story Plays. These are activities wherein young children use their gross bodily movements in their interpretation of a make-believe story or incident in their life.

2. Simple Organized Games. A game of this kind is the meaningful application of a basic movement skill or skills such as walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, leaping, sliding, and galloping.

3. Relays and races. A relay race is a special form of a simple organized game which involves the competition of two or more groups or teams.

C. RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIESThese refer to activities in which the child responds physically, mentally, and emotionally to rhythm or music. 1. Fundamental Rhythms. Combination of locomotors movements which are organized and structured with patterns of movements are fundamental rhythms.2. Rhythmic Interpretations. Purely imitative movements done rhythmically are called mimetic rhythms. Rhythmically movements done to portray thoughts or ideas in a nursery rhyme, poem song, or story are called dramatized rhythms.

3. Singing Games. When an activity has both song and game elements it is called a singing game.

4. Folk Dances. These are traditional dances that express the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of a group of people.

5. Other dance forms. These include dance mixers, jazz, modern dance, social and ballroom dancing.

D. Educational Gymnastics

• These are systematic bodily exercises or feats of performance which are based on scientific principles.

1. Self-testing Activities. These are activities or feats of performance wherein an individual can test his ability to perform a difficult activity.

A. StuntsType of Stunts:1. Individual Stunt: Duck walk, dog run, crab walk, coffee

grinder2. Dual or couple Stunt: Chinese get-up, wring the dash rag;

wheelbarrow3. Group Stunt: walking chair, skin the snake, merry-go-round4. Combative stunt: Rooster fight, tug-of-war, Indian hand

wrestleB. Tumbling- Nay body-rolling movements.Example: forward roll, backward roll, cart-wheel, egg roll

c. Pyramid-Building. A grouping of two or more individuals who are in a symmetrical position as a test on ability to hold oneself in a certain position within a minute or two.

2. Conditioning Exercises. These are exercises which aimed primarily to tone up and strengthen the muscles for the muscles for the improvement and maintenance of physical fitness.

a. Isotonic Exercises- when the muscle are made to do some contractions to gain tonus.

Example: calisthenics or free hand exercises and exercise with equipment's.

b. Isometric exercises.when the muscle are made to undergo tension without contraction and held in a position for some time in order to develop muscle strength. c. Aerobic Exercises.when very vigorous movements are performed such as brisk walking, jogging, running, skipping, and the like and the body experiences fast breathing so that the muscles of the heart and lungs are exercised.3. Apparatus Exercises. The are exercises performed with light equipment such as rings, wands, dumbbells, or balls; also exercises performed on heavy apparatus , such as balance beams, vaulting horse, trampoline, parallel bars, among others.

E. Sports Games• Sometimes called Lead-up game or high organization.• These have more complicated rules than the group

games played in lower elementary level. • They involve the skills used or needed in a particular

sports. • Example: volleyball-type games, soft-ball type games,

basketball-type games and soccer-type games.

F. Athletic Sports• These activities refer to the traditional games

or sports which highly organized and which are governed by rules and regulations.

1. Team Sports; volleyball, softball, basketball, soccer, baseball, others.

2. Individual-Dual Sports; badminton, table tennis, bowling, lawn tennis, archery, others

3. Track and Field. consist of track events such as sprints, runs, relays; and field events such as; long jump, high jump, discuss throw, javelin throw, shot put4. Swimming is optional and may be included in the program of schools which have swimming pools.

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