Week 2

We had a great week of Physical Education this week! I always start my year off with the cooperative games unit. This brings the students together. It helps them work on teamwork, sportsmanship, and accomplishing a goal with partners. It is a great unit to start off the school year with! Each class did a fantastic job and they all had fun with the challenges. We will be continuing this unit next week! Please take a look at some of the pictures of the students participating!

K-2nd

Along with our cooperative games, we worked on spacial awareness and basic locomotor movements such as jogging, skipping, galloping, and speed walking. The students practiced getting to their home-base (own personal space in the gym) as well as demonstrating their ability to perform the locomotor movements in Cookie Monster!

3rd-4th

We had some great participation in our ASAP's (Active as Soon As Possible) this week. The students got to choose many different locomotor skills to get their bodies warmed up. Some of the popular ones were crab walk, skipping, side slide, and the three legged dog.

We also had some great performances in our twist and tuck cooperative game this week. Each class had to break up into groups of 4-5. They all worked on cooperatively passing a ball to each other by twisting and tucking. Then they had to create a routine using the skills practiced. It was great!

5th-8th

We had fun this week getting to know each other with some great cooperative games. We had the most fun with team juggling. Each group had to try to juggle a hacky-sack. When they were successful with one, they went to two, then three, then four, and some even made it to five!

We also started our Fitness Testing this week. The students complete five fitness tests (curl-ups, push-ups, shuttle run, sit and reach, and the mile run). Their scores are recorded and they are used to create yearly goals. Students enjoy seeing their progress in each test as the year goes on. It also helps them set their own personal goals outside of school. They can see what test they want to increase in, and work on that outside of school!

Remember to keep moving!!!!!!!