Snake
Snake is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Demonstrate the skills needed (running and jumping over.) Use children to help demonstrate and practice these skills.
- Ask the children to explain the concepts and the rules back to you.
- This is a very simple and fun way for kids to learn the eye-foot coordination needed to jump rope.
- In small groups of three or more, provide one rope and identify to children to become the first “turners”, everyone else will begin jumping.
- The two turners kneel or sit on the ground and hold the rope to the ground.
- The rope turners’ jobs are to move the rope back and forth first slowly and low to the ground. They will then increasing the speed of the rope as the jumpers improve.
- Jumpers take turns running up to and jumping over the rope-using a two-feet or one-foot jump.
- Jumpers are challenged jump over the rope without touching it.
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Prompts to use +
Demonstrate the skills needed (running and jumping over.) Use children to help demonstrate and practice these skills.
Ask the children to explain the concepts and the rules back to you.
In small groups of three or more, provide one rope and identify to children to become the first “turners”, everyone else will begin jumping.
The two turners kneel or sit on the ground and hold the rope to the ground.
The rope turners’ jobs are to move the rope back and forth first slowly and low to the ground. They will then increasing the speed of the rope as the jumpers improve.
Jumpers take turns running up to and jumping over the rope-using a two-feet or one-foot jump.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Snake. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Demonstrate the skills needed (running and jumping over.) Use children to help demonstrate and practice these skills.; Ask the children to explain the concepts and the rules back to you.; In small groups of three or more, provide one rope and identify to children to become the first “turners”, everyone else will begin jumping.; The two turners kneel or sit on the ground and hold the rope to the ground.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playworks; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playworks.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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