Grade 5 Overall Expectations:
Movement Skills and Concepts
Perform controlled transfers of weight in a variety of situations involving static and dynamic balance, using changes in speed and levels, with and without equipment
- Fitness 4 Kids (Hoopla Video)
- Have A Blast With This Family Fun Cardio Workout! (YouTube)
- Improving Balance (YouTube)
Demonstrate the ability to jump in control for height or distance, using a variety of body actions
- Field Events in Action (Book)
- Touch the Sky (Book)
- 4 Exercises to Jump Higher (YouTube)
- Long Jump Basics (YouTube)
Explore different combinations of locomotor movements with and without equipment, alone and with others, moving at different speeds and levels, and using different pathways
- 25 Low Prep Obstacle Courses (Website)
- Basic Ribbon Handling (YouTube)
Send and receive objects using different body parts and equipment, adjusting for speed, while applying basic principles or movement
- Catch! 10 Ways to Play (Website)
- Soccer Skills for Defending/Dodging (YouTube)
Retain objects with and without equipment in a variety of situations while moving in different pathways around others and equipment
- 10 Ways to Play Catch With a Friend (Website)
- Volleyball Challenges (YouTube)
Movement Strategies
Demonstrate an understanding of the components of physical activities and apply this understanding as they participate in a variety of physical activities
- Try out various web videos of sports activities and training skills for sports that your child enjoys most. Below are a selection of YouTube Videos for various sports and activities.
- Running: Kids/Youth Triathlon (Website)
- Training: Resistance Bands Exercises (YouTube)
- Dancing: Just Dance Workout (YouTube)
- Yoga: Mind-Body Connection through Yoga (YouTube)
- Basketball: Basketball Shooting Drills for Youth (YouTube)
- Basketball: 6 BEST Dribbling Drills For Kids! (YouTube)
- Baseball: Simple Baseball Fielding Drills (YouTube)
- Baseball: Baseball Throwing Drills (YouTube)
- Soccer: Soccer Training at Home for Kids (YouTube)
- Soccer: Soccer Drills for Kids (YouTube)
- Football: Cone Drills for Speed and Agility (YouTube)
- Football: Football Catching Drills (YouTube)
- Volleyball: Ways to Practice Volleyball at Home (YouTube)
- Volleyball: Solo Volleyball Drills for Home (YouTube)
- Describe common features of specific categories of physical activities, and describe strategies and tactics that they found effective while participating in a variety of physical activities in different categories
- Discuss with your child what they did in the video, and how they think these drills will help them get better at the sport/activity. What other sports might these drills help them with?
- Apply a variety of tactical solutions to increase their chances of success as they participate in physical activities