Hopping Frogs

This week we played a new tag game in the gym called hopping frogs. Some of us were chosen to be frogs; we used our imaginations and pretended that pool noodles were our long, sticky frog tongues. The rest of us were flies - the frogs tried to catch the flies!

We had 6 hula hoops set up around the gym. If a fly stood in a hula hoop, they were safe; a frog could not catch them. But, flies were only allowed to stay in a hula hoop for ten seconds. This was a great way for us to practice our counting. 

If a fly was tagged by a frog, they needed to sit on a "lily pad" (the blue mat) for a short amount of time and then they returned to the game. 

Not only did we get to practice our counting; this game helped us to develop our spatial awareness as we needed to maneuver around hula hoops when travelling throughout the gym.