Straight Ahead

Supplies:

Crepe Paper Streamers

What to do:

If weather permits, go outside for foot races.  If weather doesn’t cooperate or if girls are dressed up, stay inside and have hopping races or crawling races, etc.  Get creative!  Mark off a finish line with crepe paper streamers.  Preferably taping ends to 2 chairs or something where it can be seen when looking straight ahead, rather than placing on the floor or ground.  After races, say, “In WHAT direction were you looking as you raced?”  straight ahead.   Race again, except this time instruct students to race while looking sideways or behind them, instead of looking straight ahead.  Ask, “WHEN was racing easier?  When you looked straight ahead at the goal or when you looked to the side or behind?  When we get distracted we tend to get tripped up or veer off course, which slows us down.  When we keep our eyes on the goal, we are more focused and run a straighter more direct path.”