Year 1 Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise worksheet

“Movement and my body” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 PE unit “Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 24 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 7 to 9 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Movement and my body

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · PE · about 24 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can notice how moving your body changes your heart and breathing.

A Look back3 min

1.
Say the three steps of a high jump to your grown-up.
2.
How should you land after a jump? Show and tell your grown-up.
3.
What moves make a skip? Tell your grown-up.

B Watch me, then you4 min

After fast moving, do a cool down. Use a clear space away from windows. A grown-up watches.

Watch me

A cool down starts with gentle moving.

Then you slow down to a walk.

Last, you stand still and breathe slowly.

Now you

1.
These are cool down steps, all mixed up. Write 1, 2 and 3 by each step to put them in order.
1. Feel your heart beat slower
2. Walk slowly around the room
3. Stand still and breathe slowly

C Your turn8 min

Read each story. Circle the best tip. Keep your space clear and your grown-up watching.

A clear living room floor with a rug, a soft ball and a chair pushed back

1.
Ola is balancing on one foot. Which tip helps her most? Circle one.
Look at one spot in front of youLook down at your feet all the timeHold your breath until you wobble
2.
Sam jumps off the bottom step. Which tip helps him land well? Circle one.
Bend your knees when you landKeep your legs stiff and straightJump without looking where you land
3.
Mia skips on the spot. Which tip helps her keep going without stopping? Circle one.
Keep small hops in a steady rhythmHop as hard as you can, then stopSkip with your eyes shut
4.
Do star jumps while a grown-up counts to 30. Then put a hand on your chest. Tick the row if your heart is beating faster. Do three tries.

Say it out loud: After your star jumps, put a hand on your chest. What is your heart doing? How is your breathing?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A grassy garden path with a soft ball resting on the grass

Kit says: “When I run, my breathing slows down to get air.”

1.
What really happens to Kit's breathing when he runs? Tell your grown-up.

E Think deeper4 min

Do ten star jumps in a clear space. Then sit still and notice your body.

1.
Tell your grown-up what your heart and breathing did after the star jumps. Why does your body do this?

How did it feel?2 min

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Movement and my body · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Look for: Says bend the knees, push off with an arm swing, then land softly. If your child misses a step, do one jump together slowly and name each part.

2. Look for: Lands or says to land with soft, bent knees. If your child lands with straight legs, show bending the knees like a spring.

3. Look for: Says a step, then a hop on the same foot. If your child is not sure, skip together slowly and say step, hop out loud.

B

1. 1 Walk slowly around the room · 2 Stand still and breathe slowly · 3 Feel your heart beat slower If they put the heart step first, ask: does your heart slow down before or after you stop moving?

C

1. Look at one spot in front of you Looking down means the eyes follow the feet, not a still spot. Ask them to try both and say which felt steadier.

2. Bend your knees when you land Stiff legs make the body jolt. Ask them to land from a small jump and feel their knees bend.

3. Keep small hops in a steady rhythm Big hard hops make the rhythm break. Ask them to skip slowly and count each hop out loud.

4. Look for: Three rows marked after each try, showing the child felt their heart after the star jumps.

D

1. Look for: breathing gets faster because the body needs more air when it works hard If they say slower, ask them to put a hand on their chest after running and notice what it does.

E

1. Look for: Says the heart beats faster and breathing gets faster, because the body needs more air when it works hard.

Words to use

Say“Where did you feel your heart get faster? Let's do the star jumps again and feel it change.”

Instead of“Well done, you are so good at sport.”

After the sheet

Do ten star jumps together in a clear space, away from windows. Put a hand on your chest, then sit still for one minute and feel again. Talk about what changed and why.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Our heart and exercise(with a plan)
Breathing and moving(with a plan)
Getting ready to move(with a plan)
Happy heart, happy mind(with a plan)
Faster heart, faster breath(with a plan)

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