The document outlines the six main categories of activities in an elementary school physical education program: 1) Developmental activities focus on perceptual-motor skills, posture, and basic movement. 2) Simple games include story plays, organized games, and relays to develop locomotor skills. 3) Rhythmic activities incorporate fundamental rhythms, dances, and singing games set to music. 4) Educational gymnastics are systematic exercises based on stunts, tumbling, pyramid-building, and conditioning. 5) Sports games have more complex rules to introduce skills for volleyball, softball, basketball and soccer. 6) Athletic sports refer to traditional team, individual, and track and field activities governed by

1. ACTIVITIES IN THE ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL PROGRAM
Prepared By: Casey L. Banugan
BSED-MAPEH

2. Activities in the Elementary
School Program
• The specific activities in the elementary
school program are classified in six main
phases or categories as follows:
A. Developmental Activities
B. Simple Games (Group Games)
C. Rhythmic Activities
D. Educational Gymnastics
E. Sports-type Games (Lead-up Games)
F. Athletic Sports

3. A. Developmental Activities
1. Perceptual-motor Learning. These develop neuromuscular
coordination.
2. Posture and body mechanics. Posture refers to habitual or
assumed alignment of the main segments of the body while
standing, sitting, or lying position.
• Body mechanics is the use of the body which has its basis in
good posture.
3. Basic movement skills
These includes locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative
activities.

4. B. Simple Games (Group Game)
1. Story Plays. These are activities wherein young children
use their gross bodily movements in their interpretation of
a make-believe story or incident in their life.
2. Simple Organized Games. A game of this kind is the
meaningful application of a basic movement skill or skills
such as walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping,
leaping, sliding, and galloping.
3. Relays and races. A relay race is a special form of a simple
organized game which involves the competition of two or more
groups or teams.

5. C. RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
These refer to activities in which the child responds physically,
mentally, and emotionally to rhythm or music.
1. Fundamental Rhythms.
Combination of locomotors movements which are organized and
structured with patterns of movements are fundamental rhythms.
2. Rhythmic Interpretations.
Purely imitative movements done rhythmically are called mimetic
rhythms.
Rhythmically movements done to portray thoughts or ideas in a
nursery rhyme, poem song, or story are called dramatized rhythms.

6. 3. Singing Games. When an activity has both song and
game elements it is called a singing game.
4. Folk Dances. These are traditional dances that express
the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of a group of people.
5. Other dance forms. These include dance mixers, jazz,
modern dance, social and ballroom dancing.

7. D. Educational Gymnastics
• These are systematic bodily exercises or feats of performance
which are based on scientific principles.
1. Self-testing Activities.
These are activities or feats of performance wherein an
individual can test his ability to perform a difficult activity.

8. A. Stunts
Type of Stunts:
1. Individual Stunt: Duck walk, dog run, crab walk, coffee
grinder
2. Dual or couple Stunt: Chinese get-up, wring the dash rag;
wheelbarrow
3. Group Stunt: walking chair, skin the snake, merry-go-round
4. Combative stunt: Rooster fight, tug-of-war, Indian hand
wrestle
B. Tumbling- Nay body-rolling movements.
Example: forward roll, backward roll, cart-wheel, egg roll

9. c. Pyramid-Building.
A grouping of two or more individuals who are in a
symmetrical position as a test on ability to hold oneself
in a certain position within a minute or two.
2. Conditioning Exercises.
These are exercises which aimed primarily to tone up
and strengthen the muscles for the muscles for the
improvement and maintenance of physical fitness.
a. Isotonic Exercises- when the muscle are made to
do some contractions to gain tonus.
Example: calisthenics or free hand exercises and
exercise with equipment's.

10. b. Isometric exercises.
when the muscle are made to undergo tension without contraction
and held in a position for some time in order to develop muscle
strength.
c. Aerobic Exercises.
when very vigorous movements are performed such as brisk walking,
jogging, running, skipping, and the like and the body experiences fast
breathing so that the muscles of the heart and lungs are exercised.
3. Apparatus Exercises.
The are exercises performed with light equipment such as rings,
wands, dumbbells, or balls; also exercises performed on heavy
apparatus , such as balance beams, vaulting horse, trampoline,
parallel bars, among others.

11. E. Sports Games
• Sometimes called Lead-up game or high organization.
• These have more complicated rules than the group
games played in lower elementary level.
• They involve the skills used or needed in a particular
sports.
• Example: volleyball-type games, soft-ball type games,
basketball-type games and soccer-type games.

12. F. Athletic Sports
• These activities refer to the traditional games
or sports which highly organized and which
are governed by rules and regulations.
1. Team Sports; volleyball, softball, basketball,
soccer, baseball, others.
2. Individual-Dual Sports; badminton, table
tennis, bowling, lawn tennis, archery, others

13. 3. Track and Field. consist of track events such
as sprints, runs, relays; and field events such as;
long jump, high jump, discuss throw, javelin
throw, shot put
4. Swimming is optional and may be included in
the program of schools which have swimming
pools.

14. The End!
Thank You