Field Day - May 16, 2025

Split students into 6 teams. Each team will have 2 balls that match their team’s color. When the leader says "go" one student from each team rolls the two bocce balls, attempting to roll it closest to the cone at the bottom of the hill. The team with the closest bocce ball gets 1 point for their team. After all balls are rolled the leader will instruct students to get the balls and return them to the next player. Repeat until all players have had a turn. Continue play until time permits.

Line the kids up at one end of the field and pick two or three kids to come to the middle as "taggers." The taggers begin the game by saying "ships across the ocean," and then all the other kids must run to the other end of the playing area while the taggers try to run after them and tag them. Kids that are tagged can either become additional taggers. The game continues with rounds or "waves," until all the kids have been tagged. The game continues until everyone is tagged. If time permits, play again!

Get into 6 lines. When the station leader says go, sit on the hippity hop and go around the cone and then back to your group, hand it to the next person, and get back to the end of your line. K-2 groups continue until time is up. Grades 3-5, go multiple rounds.

Get into 6 teams. One student goes out into the catching zone with a bucket. The other teammates wait to throw their ball using the plastic lacrosse stick (scoops for k-2). When the person in charge “Ready, Set, Go” the first person on each team with the stick, will throw their ball using the stick toward their teammate who will try to catch the ball in the air using only the bucket. Each person on the team gets one chance to throw. After everyone threw, change out the catchers and begin again. Continue until time runs out.

Get into 6 lines. When the station leader says go, throw the Foxtail or javelin (their choice) as far as they can. After all 6 have been thrown have them retrieve it and give it to the next person to throw. Station leader continues to say "Go" for each throwing round.

Get into 6 lines. When the station leader says go, players must speed walk or run a race while balancing an egg on a spoon. If the egg falls off the spoon, the player must stop and replace it before they can continue their race. Go around the cone and then back to your group, hand it to the next person, and get back to the end of your line. K-2 groups continue until time is up. Grades 3-5, go multiple rounds.

Get into 6 teams. Each team begins at a cone with one soccer ball per person. Their goal is to kick their soccer ball down the hill into their same-color net to score points. When the leader says "go" everyone will kick at the same time. Watch and wait for all soccer balls to stop, then have the students, safely, go retrieve their soccer balls. Continue until time permits.

Get into 6 lines. On volunteer’s signal of “Ready Set Go”, the first players will race down to the 1st stack of 3 buckets. The participants will up-stack 3 in a pyramid then run and up-stack the next stack of 3 buckets into a pyramid. Next run around the cone and come back by down-stacking the pyramids into the original stacks and running to high-five their teammate - who will then go. Which team will finish first?

Divide class into 6 teams each at a colored hula hoop with one basketball. When the leader says go students dribble out to a polyspot and attempt to shoot a basket with one foot on the polyspot. Students get 1 attempt to make a basket. If they make the basket, they take the polyspot back to their team and place it in their hula hoop. If they miss, they return to their team without it and give the ball to the next person in line. Continue rotating through their team until either time is up or all polyspots are gone.

"1. All players start with one hand touching a wall of the pit. 2. The game begins with a referee throwing the ball into the center of the pit. 3. When the ball enters the pit, the players scream 'GA' for the first two bounces, and 'Ball' on the third bounce, after which the ball is in action. 4. Once the ball is in play, any player can hit the ball with an open hand. 5. If a ball touches a player below the waist (even if the player hits himself or herself) he or she is out and leaves the pit. If a player is hit above the waist, the play continues. 6. If a ball is caught on a fly, the player who hit the ball is out. This is only for grades 3-5. 7. Using the walls of the octagon to aid in jumping is legal as long as the player does not permanently sit on the ledge of the octagon. 8. Players cannot hold the ball. 9. If needed, a second ball can be thrown in the pit to expedite the end of the game. The last player standing is the winner of that round."

Find a random opponent to play rock-paper-scissors against (best of one). If you won, continue on to another person to play against. The person/group who lost follows and cheers for who beat them.

Use this time to write your favorite things about Creek Valley on the sidewalk. Enjoy a drink to cool off. Playground is open too.