Primary Activities

This section includes a series of activity cards for the Primary division for Winter, Spring, and Fall.

The activities are divided by four categories: Curricular - Physical Education, DPA, Intramurals, and Recess.

Fall

Curricular - Physical Education Activity Cards

Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

Participants perform various locomotor movements and physical activities while exploring and engaging with various objects found outdoors during the fall. 

Woodland Creatures

Participants demonstrate balance, flexibility, and spatial awareness while travelling around the outdoor space imitating various woodland creatures.

DPA Activity Cards

Tree Planters and Loggers

Participants engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity in a fall environment to enhance their fitness and overall health and wellness.

Bears and Dens

Participants engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity in a fall environment to enhance their fitness and overall health and wellness.

Intramural Activity Cards

Squirrel Tails

Participants engage in a fun activity in a fall environment to build healthy relationships and social connections with others and for additional opportunities to be active throughout the school day.

Recess Activity Cards

All My Friends

Participants share their favourite activities, foods, and games that they enjoy during the fall season in an active format. 

Trees and Leaves

Participants race their partners to perform a variety of locomotor skills, then return to their spot in order to earn a point for their half of the ‘tree’.


Winter

Curricular - Physical Education Activity Cards

Snow Bocce

Participants send objects to targets while adapting to winter conditions and reflect on how weather and snow affect their movement. Participants consider how they can play this game with friends and family to stay active in winter.

Foraging for Food

Participants retain and travel with objects while adapting to winter conditions when moving outdoors and reflect on how weather and snow affect their movement. Participants consider how they can play this game with friends and family to stay active in winter.

DPA Activity Cards

Follow the Leader!

Participants engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity in a winter environment to enhance their fitness and overall health and wellness. Participants reflect on ways to be active in winter and engage others in activity to build a habit of engaging in outdoor activity throughout the year.

Winter Says

Participants engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity in an outdoor winter environment to enhance their fitness and overall health and wellness. Participants reflect on ways to be active in winter and engage others in activity to build a habit of engaging in outdoor activity throughout the year.

Intramural Activity Cards

Tic-Tac-Toe in the Snow!

Participants engage in a fun activity in a winter environment to build healthy relationships and social connections with others and for additional opportunities to be active throughout the school day.

Recess Activity Cards

Corner Switch

Participants engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity in a winter environment to enhance their physical and mental health and wellness.

Hibernation Tag

Students learn a winter game to play at recess to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity and enhance their physical and mental health and wellness in a winter environment. 


Spring

Curricular - Physical Education Activity Cards

Rain Drops

Participants practice sending an object into an open area using an implement and fielding an object to score points in an engaging spring outdoor activity.

Robin's Nest

Participants practice various game strategies in this territory-type game to accumulate three eggs in their nest while engaging in physical activity in a spring environment. 

DPA Activity Cards

April Showers Bring May Flowers Tag

Participants engage in moderate-to-vigorous tag-inspired physical activity in a spring environment to enhance their fitness and overall health and wellness. 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Participants engage in moderate-to-vigorous tag-inspired physical activity in a spring environment to enhance their fitness and overall health and wellness. 

Intramural Activity Cards

Frogger

Participants engage in a cooperative group activity in a spring environment to build healthy relationships and social connections with others and for additional opportunities to be active throughout the school day.

Recess Activity Cards

Shadow Tag

Participants play a tag game at recess on a sunny day to engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and enhance their physical and mental health and wellness in a spring environment. 

Honeybee Safe Tag

Participants play a tag game at recess to engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and enhance their physical and mental health and wellness in a spring environment.