Grade 2 Unit 3 - Reader

Drive down Tenth Street in the summer and

you will see them—the jumpers. You will see kids

jumping rope on playgrounds and street corners.

Jumping rope is something lots of kids like to do.

But most kids are not as good at it as the Jumping

Stars.

The last time I met with the Jumping Stars was in

August. They were jumping at the playground where

they hang out. Two of them were spinning the rope.

Two of them were jumping over the rope as it spun

past. The rope was spinning so fast it was hard to see

it. The jumpers’ feet went pit-pat-pit-pat-pit-pat on

the blacktop.

This sport is named jumping rope. But that makes

it sound much less cool than it is. The kids don’t just

jump. They dance. They twist and spin. They hop

and skip. They flip. They land on their hands and

then pop back up on their feet. They do all of this

while jumping over a rope at top speed. It is an art

form, like dancing.

Jump!