Physical Activity

This week’s activity was a game called Nurse Tag. This is a team game that includes simple rules, but making strategies and acting on them may be difficult. Here’s the game: there are two taggers and two nurses in a group of children. The taggers’ job is simple; they tag everyone possible including the nurses. Now, if a student is tagged once they immediately cross arms on their chest. However, if they are tagged a second time with their arms crossed on their chest they have to kneel until a “nurse” tags and “heals” them. A strategy would be doing everything possible to protect the nurses, keeping it intense an interesting.  If a nurse tags the down nurse he or she is free as well if both nurses are tagged, the game is over. This taught students the importance of strategy and that sometimes it’s better to have a plan then to just try and win.