Danielle Cruickshank

AVRCE Long-Term Substitute KCA | P-4 Phys. Ed Teacher ⚽️🏉 | Acadia Alumni

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

When we near the end of the year I like to bring out some cooperative games. This one is called hungry hippos! 🦛 @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We played submarine tag today to work on some throwing and aiming at a target. 4 students have dodgeballs (cannonballs) and try to hit submarines (students) down. If tagged, students lay on the ground with a foot in the air. Someone pushes foot down to untag. @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

Dance is a unit that can sometimes be a struggle to get everyone involved in. I try to include ways to try and hook students, this year I found a few appropriate TikTok dances. This one was the green green grass Tiktok dance and the students were pumped to do it! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

Last year for my dance unit I did the Cotton Eye Joe line dance and some of my classes insisted on doing it again this year, so we did! They killed it!! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

One of the dances we did today was the Mexican hat dance. We learned to listen to the beat and when to change dance moves based on the music! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We started dance this week! Normally I start out with some of our basic dances that most students know such as the chicken dance, Cha cha slide and the Macarena! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We have finished up jump rope (for the most part). Students really enjoyed using jump rope ninja. I love how it introduces goal setting even with my littlest students! Near the end I had students doing long rope skills and partner skills! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

Spending the day at Kings Edgehill today for track and field districts! Awesome to see all the athletes compete! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

I got to spend my day at the Milk Sports Fair thanks to @SportNovaScotia! Great way for students to try out all kinds of different sports and get active! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We’ve been learning lots of jump rope skills with our rope laying on the floor. We’ve done side to side, backwards and forwards, various jumping patterns, one foot, jumps and spins etc. We learned we can use our jump rope for other ways of jumping! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We have now transferred from gymnastics to jump rope to get us ready for Jump Rope for Heart. To warm up we played noodle jump tag. If you got tagged you had to stand like a star. To get untagged you have to jump over a long noodle two times. @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

I always like to end my gymnastics unit with stations so students can bring together all the skills we’ve learned. It’s always a fan favourite!! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We’ve been working on jumping and rolling this week in PE! We’ve worked on tuck, star, seat kicker, pike and 360 jumps. We have tried log, pencil, egg and forward rolls. We’ve also learned about weight transfers! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We tried out some of the 5 person balances for the Balance It app! My students were super excited when they stuck the balance! We also learned how to adapt some balances to make them a bit easier! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

Working on 3 person balances today in gymnastics. Lots of hard work and smiles!! 🤸@KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We worked on some 2 person balances today! The students love these and are always super pumped to do them. I even got partners to come up with their own balance and they were super creative! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We started gymnastics this week! We started with some individual balances and learning various 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 point balances. We used the Balance It app for some visuals as well. Next up, partner balances! @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

Since it is the last day before Easter weekend we played Easter egg hunt relay. There were 60 eggs hid under the cones. One at a time the students went and picked up one cone to see if there were eggs under it. If there was, they’d bring them back! 🐣🐰@KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

We played mission impossible today but made it Easter! Students had to try and steal Easter eggs and bring them back to their Easter basket without getting caught by the Easter bunny!🐰 @KCAKentville

[Danielle Cruickshank @PEwithMissC]

I’m bringing out the Easter themed games this week! Today we played Easter egg tag. Students had to bring their Easter egg to there Easter basket without getting tagged by the Easter bunny. If they got tagged they had to do 5 jumping jacks! 🐰 @KCAKentville