**Mini Ninja listed below this lesson plan

Creed: Do what I know how to do when it's time to do it. (There is a time and a place for everything) Give an example. Then have the kids share a few examples.

Game: Breakout. One ninja has a noodle and will count to twenty. The other ninjas hide. When the counter gets to twenty, they will start looking for their classmates who are hiding. When they spot the first one, they will call out the work "breakout." All the ninjas who are hiding will abandon their hiding spots and try to make it to the dojo as quickly as possible without getting tagged.

Obstacle Course: (5 min)
1. Across the rings
2. Rope swing
3. Box jumps (Feet together. Over the box if possible)
4. Add exercise in dojo if a line starts to form.

Focus skill: Cart (5 min)
1. Starting in a lunge, cartwheel over each of the three boxes. Emphasize starting and landing in the lunge position.
2. Scissor walks down the balance beam. (hands on the floor, feet on the beam) Explain in the cart we use straight arms as in the scissor walk.
3. Needle kicks. Starting in a lunge position place both hands on the ground, fingers facing forward. Keeping the front leg on the ground, kick the back leg up as high as possible. Explain that this is the same way you kick for a cartwheel.

Strength: ( 2 min) Twenty seconds of each exercise.
1. Push ups
2. Leg raises (Laying on your back, keeping legs straight, raise the legs up and back as close to the floor as you can without touching.)
3. Box jump (Pair ninjas up on opposing sides of the three boxes from the obstacle course.)

Stations:
1. Window Escape. Window escape 180. Window escape 360. Flying gainer.
2. Seat drop. Forward roll. Dive roll. Front flip. Front half. Front full.
3. Front kick. Round kick. Tornado kick. 540 kick.
4. Cart. Cartwheel step together. Round off. BHS. RO BHS. RO multiple BHS
5. Handstand with wall assistance. 10.20.30.45.60 seconds
6. Vertical wall run. Wall spin with tilted wall. Wall spin. Ninja roll to wall spin.

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Mini Ninja's:

1: Have Mini Ninja's start with free time to explore first

2: Explain Course ( it is part one and two together to make a big course) and run it a few times. Hang on rings, Swing on rope, Jump on colored boxes, Bear crawl or froggy jump on black carpet, walk on beam, walk on slack line repeat a few times.

4: Head over to numbers. Explain them and have them do each station about 3 times and move on to the next number on their own.

      1: Hang on bar

      2: Jump in a circle

      3: Have grown up hold target for punches and kicks.

      4: Use the barrel to push forward and pull backwards as fast as they can.

      5: Handstands on the wall

      6: Run up the wall

5: Head to dojo. Get out the punching clapper target clappers and practice punches and kicks.

6: Grab stickers and head downstairs to play for a few minutes.

7: End class give out stickers.

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