Playground

Basketball – No GAMES – shooting games ONLY

Court 1 half court : 3rd Grade – shooting only

• Shoot from each spot – when basket is made, player moves to next spot.  Object is to make basket from each spot.

Court 2 two half courts : 4th Grade – shooting only

• Half courts only, shooting only.

Court 3 two half courts: 5th grade – shooting only unless supervised

Four-square

• Wait with feet behind line

• New person in square is server

• New player tosses ball to #4 player to start game

• OPEN hand, UNDERHAND

• Ball fair only if it bounces in the outer square

• Hitter OUT if ball bounces on a line, if player misses ball, if player hits illegally

• NO ‘do-overs’, ‘teams’ or ‘betters’

• NO catching, holding, blasting  or spiking

Tetherball - 

• Hit ball with  OPEN hand(s)

• One player only on a side

• Next player in line is referee

• Game ends when rope wound completely around pole

• Winner chooses side or serve

• Game over at freeze bell

• Players are out when they:

  • Touch the pole or rope; Step out of side; Stop and push ball; Hold ball; Double hit ball

Wall Ball

• In coming player serves ball by throwing ball towards the wall

• Ball must bounce once on ground before it hits the wall.

• Receiving player must hit the ball, open handed, either before it bounces or after one bounce

• Play continues until the ball:

• Bounces on a line or out of boundaries.

• Ball bounces more than once before it is returned

• Ball hits wall without bouncing off the ground first

• Ball is caught before it is hit

• When player is out, they go to the end of the line and a new player comes in

When a player wins 3 games in a row, they go to end of line and next 2 players enter court

Play Structure 

• Hold bar with BOTH hands

• Wait turn 

• DO NOT help anyone on bars

• DO NOT jump off or stand on

• No chasing, no blocking others

• Take turns

• One person at a time

• Only go down slide, not up

• Do not push or chase

Hopscotch

• Put the marker in 1st space, and then go in order.  Hop over marker.  

• Out if you touch a space with a marker or step on a line.

• Go to end, turn and return, pick up marker on the way.  

Toss your marker to your next square

Swings

• Only 1 at a time on swing; NO standing on swing

• Forward and  back only

• NO pushing, running between, or in front of swings

• Stand in ONE line beginning at yellow rectangle, ALL count to 20; ALL get off ALL swings at 20

• Count to 20, saying 1-100, 2-100, 3-100 to 50

• Stop swing then get off – NO jumping off swings