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Fourteen games are presented in just under 30 minutes. A descriptive brochure with a skill guide for each game is provided. Length: 30 minutes. Format: VHS only To order within the United States:
To order within Europe: Retail price in UK: £14.99 (€21.99)
To order outside the United States and Europe: Click here to email us your order. Remember to include the item name and quantity. Also include the address you would like us to ship the item(s) to, whether you would like NTSC (U.S.) or PAL (European) format, and the email address where New Games can send you an invoice. The invoice will allow you to pay securely using Paypal. For a list of international shipping rates, click here."You could do worse than to be stranded on a desert island with Dale Le Fevre. I've no idea what his hunter-gatherer skills are, but the man know hundreds of games...better cinematography than earlier efforts. Overall...I think there are enough useful games for elementary kids here to recommend this for schools." -R. Pitman, Video Librarian "Skill Games is a physical education video for today's less than active children, and for a society which stresses teamwork and cooperation over individual competition. One of the best features of these games is that they involve all the participants in active physical activities. Put this in the hands of recess monitors, P.E. teachers, club leaders, and after school program leaders, and they will thank you." -Linda Skeele, Western Elementary School, in School Library Journal "The imaginative activities encourage teamwork, creativity, and motor skills. Teachers, recreation directors and others will find these simple activities easy to adapt and implement." -Candace Smith, Booklist back to top of page Watch a Sample!
Skill Games: Each game on the video is 2 to 3
minutes long and includes a full explanation, demonstration, and is played
enough to show how it looks in action. Here is one of the games, Borrow
It, where the goal is to get the other team's objects to your base. You
can't guard the base and you can only take one object at a time. Each team
starts at their base. What you see here are a few audio and video extracts
from the game. If you use the quick
download, the quality will not be
very good but it will only take 1-2 minutes (if you are using a modem) and
give you an idea of what the game looks like. The slow
download will give you a much better
resolution but will take 3-5 minutes if you are using a modem. You will
need QuickTime Player
to view the samples. If you do not already have it, click
here to download it for free.
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| Reviewed in Booklist, September 2002: SKILL GAMES New Games. 2001; rel. 2002. 30 min. $29.95 (pp). 707-962-0514. An instructor leads kids through 14 outdoor games that involve Frisbees, balls, ropes, bats, and other basic playground equipment. The imaginative activities encourage teamwork, creativity, and motor skills. After the host describes each game and clarifies rules, the camera follows the youngsters enthusiastically participating. Mixing with more common relay races and ball tosses are contests that challenge both mind and body, including "Half the Feet," where teams devise as many combinations as possible to cover a prescribed distance, and "Scoot and Spell," which requires teams to spell out words from letters they race to retrieve. Teachers, recreation directors, and others will find these simple activities easy to adapt and implement. Another new title from the same distributor as The New Parachute Games. -Candace Smith * * Recommended by California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse, March 1999: 
* * Reviewed in Video Librarian, November/December 1998: Rating: Three stars SKILL GAMES (1998) 30 min. $29.95 (booklet included). New Games. PPR. Color cover. You could do worse than to be stranded on a desert island with Dale Le Fevre. I've no idea what his hunter-gatherer skills are, but the man knows hundreds of games, for Milton-Bradley's sake. "Half the Feet," "Frisbee Volleyball," "Hyperspace," "Scoot and Spell," these are just a handful of the 14 new games profiled in Le Fevre's latest compilation Skill Games (see also Cooperative Group Games in VL-9/97). Sporting better cinematography than earlier efforts, Skill Games still sticks to the basic format: learning once removed; i.e., viewers watch Le Fevre teaching the games to school kids, who then play the game - some of which looked fun. "Scoot and Spell" pits teams against one another in a race to collect cutout letters and be the first to spell a word (the winner was "tall," though I heard another team yell out - I think - "we got 'booze'!"). Other games seemed more like exercises. "Musical Squares," for instance, is played like musical chairs only all the players can touch a square at the same time - so no one's ever out. I'm sorry, but a non-competitive game is an oxymoron. (If I were to play a game of horseshoes with one of my upstate New York cousins, he or she would not say, "let me give you a small handicap, you being a writer and all"; no, he or she would say "I'm gonna have to open up a can of whup ass.") Overall, however, I think there are enough useful games for elementary kids to recommend this for schools. Aud: K, E, I. -R. Pitman * * Reviewed in the School Library Journal, October 1998: SKILL GAMES Videocassette. Color. 30 mins. with tchr's. guide. New Games. 1998. $29.95. Gr 3-12, adults - Skill Games is a physical education video for today's less than active children, and for a society which stresses teamwork and cooperation over individual competition. The 14 games demonstrated by instructor Dale N. Le Fevre and multiracial students in a large California middle school will be welcomed not only by P.E. teachers, but also by club, camp, and scout leaders. All the games can be played indoors or outdoors by groups ranging from 10 to over 50 participants with a wide range of abilities and skills. Most call for nothing more than a hula hoop, some balls, clothespins, squares of paper or bases, or a volleyball net. The program was not produced to show to children in its entirety. At most, a game leader might show one three or four minute section as an introduction to a new game, but most of this video's audience will be adults. Physical education teachers will appreciate having new games for large groups, and will be grateful for the accompanying instruction sheet which includes a list of skills like self control, visual ability, endurance, and balance with each game which can be used on lesson plans. Le Fevre explains each game to students, answers typical questions, and then has the students play the game for a short while to explain the rules. One of the best features of these games is that they involve all the participants in active physical activities. Put this useful video in the hands of recess monitors, P.E. teachers, club leaders, and they will thank you. -Linda R. Skeele, Western Elementary School, Georgetown, KY * * From Saskatchewan Education: From: "Gaudet, Marielle EDO" To: "dlefevre@mcn.org" Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 Dear Mr. LeFevre, Regarding: Skill Games. I have located the video in our offices and it will be returned to you immediately by insured mail. The video was evaluated for Physical Education and was found to be supportive of the Grades 1 to 5 curriculum in Saskatchewan. Our evaluation of the video noted the skills taught for playing games and how these were taught with a positive note on cooperation and problem solving. Thank you for your cooperation and have a good day, Marielle Gaudet Library Technician - Saskatchewan Education back to top of page |
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