Jump Rope 4 Heart - Friday, April 16th

Jump Rope 4 Heart – Friday, April 16th

Room 17 ran the stations for the morning session of Jump Rope for Heart this year. These are the nine stations that were there: Helicopters, Elastic Fantastic, Individual Challenge, School, Lemon Twist, Banana Doubles, Long Rope, Crossovers, Single Skipping.

Here is a description of each station:

Helicopters: One person stands in the middle, with everyone else in a circle around them. They take a long rope and whirls it around close to the ground while the people in the circle try to jump over it. If the rope hits you, you trade places with the person in the middle.

Elastic Fantastic: This station includes limbo, high jump, and Chinese skipping. Limbo is where two people hold a rope and one person at a time everybody tries to go under without touching the rope. Each turn, the rope goes lower and lower. High jump is where you try to jump over the rope without touching it and instead of going down the rope goes higher and higher. Chinese skipping is where two people hold two ropes, both holding an end of each, and a person tries to jump over in a pattern. Each time you do the pattern correctly without touching, the two people raise the ropes.

Individual Challenge: At this station, people can challenge themselves by doing tricks, skipping faster or skipping longer.

School: School is where you go through “school” by skipping. Two people turn a long rope and one of the students will try to run through to pass “kindergarten”. To pass grade one, you must run in and skip once and get out. Grade two, you run in and skip twice and then run out, and so on and so on.

Lemon Twist: The students skip with a “skippit” or “lemon twist”.

Banana Doubles: This is where two people share a rope and do all sorts of cool activities.

Long Rope: This is similar to the set-up for school, but instead of doing the “school” rhyme, people do all sorts of different kinds of skipping.

Crossovers: Students cross their arms over and jump/skip.

Single Skipping: At this station, people just jump/skip on their own.

They were all lots of fun, but the favorite station by far was the freezies station. Everybody got to choose a half of a jumbo freezie and relax for a station rotation (7-10 minutes). We’d like to thank the room 21-ers that were leaders of the groups or helped man the stations.

-J&O