Classroom Teacher Integrated

Place the students into groups of four students. Be sure to have a poster with the words of the rhyme displayed at each group.

Activity:

* Two students turn the rope and two students jump.

* The students will enter the jump rope and recite the poem while jumping. Additionally, they will perform the necessary actions.

* The two students continue jumping until the completion of the poem and then switch places with the turners. If a student misses a jump, they continue in the activity.

* The ultimate goal is to complete the jumping rhyme, saying all the words, with no misses.

Jump Rope Rhyme:

Studying the civil war of the United States (place hands into the shape of a book)
And working on remembering the dates
It all began with the battle of Bull Run (run in place while jumping)
Way back in 1861

President Lincoln was on a mission
The southern states wouldn’t listen (put a hand up to your ear)
One nation we needed to be ( put up one index finger to represent 1)
Without rebels and slavery

Ulysses S. Grant led the north
And with his troops he set forth (march while saluting your forehead)
The union was their name
And Infamous they became (take a bow in between jumping)

Then there was General Robert E Lee
Leading the south, the confederacy (march while saluting your forehead)
He led his troops with great pride
Fighting for a great divide ( jump with legs and arms spread apart)

Both sides set out strong and tall (flex muscles while jumping)
But Gettysburg changed it all
The Confederacy took a dive (put hands into a dive position while jumping)
They could no longer survive

In the spring of 1865
The south surrendered inevitably (student waves a white flag that they brought in while jumping)
The worst U.S. war was at an end
And both sided were left to mend (after leaving tie the white scarf around arm so that it can ‘mend’)