Grade 6 Overall Expectations:
Movement Skills and Concepts
Perform smooth transfers of weight in in relation to others and equipment in a variety of situations involving static and dynamic balance
- Fun Yoga for Tweens! (YouTube)
- Core Workout (Stability Ball) (YouTube)
Perform a wide variety of locomotor movements, in combination, at different speeds, in different directions, and using different pathways, while moving around others and/or equipment
- Gymnastics Essentials for Floor Exercise Part 1 (Hoopla eVideo)
- Jordyn Jones’ Top 10 Favorite Dance Moves (YouTube)
- Basic Locomotor Movements for Sports (YouTube)
Send and receive a variety of objects, adjusting for speed and distance, while applying basic principles of movement
- Catch! 10 Ways to Play (Website)
- Catching and Throwing (YouTube)
- Rubber Chicken Phys Ed Activities (YouTube)
Retain objects in a variety of situations while travelling in different pathways and at different speeds in relation to others and equipment
- 5 Balloon Games (YouTube)
- Hula Hoop Phys Ed Activities (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 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 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
- Discuss how drills and practice help you get better at a sport or activity.