Action Stories - Adapted from Alberta Education. (2006). Daily physical activity: A handbook for grades 1-9 schools. Edmonton, AB: Learning and Teaching Resources Branch.
Materials
- No materials needed
- Tell a simple story that contains many different types of actions and characters and have the students act out the characters and their actions, such as:
- Animals: elephant, gorilla, kangaroo, horse, bird, alligator, rabbit
- Machines: cars, planes, helicopters, spaceships, robots, elevators, toasters
- Nature: trees, grass, growing flowers, lightening, wind
- GLO 1.1 - Discover and Explore
- Experiment with language and forms
- Expresses ideas and develops understanding
- GLO 2.2 - Respond to texts
- Construct meaning from texts
- GLO 4.1 Enhance and Improve
- Expands knowledge of language