🕒 Quick & Easy Routines to Start (and End) Your Adapted PE Class
No gym? No problem! In today’s video, I’m sharing my go-to entry, warm-up, and cool-down routines for Adapted Physical Education—even if you’re teaching in a hallway, classroom, or outdoors.
Whether you’re new to APE or just looking to create more structure in unconventional spaces, these simple routines will help your students feel safe, engaged, and ready to move.
💡 What’s Inside:
✔️ How I mark student spots with painter’s tape, carpet squares, or hula hoops
✔️ No-equipment warm-ups like marching, stretches, and circle games
✔️ Calming, flexible cool-downs—even in tight spaces
✔️ The key to building predictability without needing a gym
✔️ FREE scripts and printable routine checklists!
📥 Grab the FREE Playlist Here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05UepX3jeNuhv9pEpd7yzr?si=6HXP0SyQST24Jurbf86Osw
📘 Want more tools like these? Get The Ultimate Adapted P.E. Manual:
https://www.easyadaptedpe.com/ultimateadaptedpemanual
💬 Let’s Build a Routine Library Together:
What’s YOUR favorite way to start or end class? Drop it in the comments below—your idea might help another teacher tomorrow!
Hello my name is Erik Danielson and I teach Gen. Ed and Unified PE at our middle school. How we end our lesson in our Unified PE class is with a Compliment Circle..we all sit in a circle in the middle of the gym and go around a provide a compliment for another person based on that lesson or we can give a thumbs up.