Sport Stacking = Not JUST a bunch of Cups...

We have been working on Sport Stacking in PE in all grade levels: Kindergarten-6th grade.  

This is a personal favorite unit of mine to teach each year!  This is an activity that many students are unfamiliar with and it quickly grows into a favorite for them as well.

Sport Stacking benefits the students in many ways, here are just a few of my favorite reasons to do this unit:

• Improves Hand-Eye Coordination
• Right and Left Brain Activation
• Improves Bilateral Coordination
• Fine Motor Skill Improvement
• Plus - we get PLENTY of exercise with the variety of games we play!

When many people hear "Cup Stacking" - which also... the pros DO NOT prefer that name!  It is like when people call P.E. "Gym Class"... hurts my soul a little bit... 

Anyway... Stacking often gets a bad rap because people just assume we are sitting in one place practicing our stacking sequences.  I am here to tell you different!  Sure we practices our different stacking sequences, but then we play so many different games that require the students to be on the go, getting our heart rates up!

Today my older students played a game called March Madness - they were on teams and had to stack quickly in order to advance to the next round.  Despite students being eliminated each round, the game moves so quickly and the students are cheering each other on, that there was very little down time and they left sweaty!

    

    

My younger students enjoyed a Stacking Tag game today where we work on our locomotor movements, and if/when you get tagged, you go out, practice a specific stack sequence and then come back in the game.

I have already seen great improvement in their stacking skills and we still have many more stacking games to play this week!!