Hi everybody,
We hope you all had a great summer!
PE class has been going great (although with the really hot days we’ve had, and the rainy days as well, we haven’t been able to go outside much). Hopefully this third week of September will be the start to a long stretch of nice fall weather!
The children have been settling into our PE class routines, with our warm ups first, including stretching and fitness running/jogging, and then our PE units and lessons, which involve our skills activities, in Sept. that would include soccer and foot skills with a ball, skills and fitness stations, various locomotor movements, and the rock climbing wall. Our warm ups focus on balance, strength, power, speed, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and agility.
Our skills units are our curriculum and standards set forth by the state and in coordination with the national standards and trends. Many of our objectives and goals are attained by incorporating games into our units that stress and highlight those skills and movements we are working on at that time.
Equipment we have used this September include hula hoops, short and long jump ropes, stacking cups, spinning plates, ring toss, juggling scarves, “ice cream cones” (catching equipment and soft “fluffy” balls to work on eye hand coordination), and heart rate monitors.
Pre K, K, and Grade 1: We have focused on developing healthy routines and habits through exercise and skills games that will help them feel confident and comfortable during play and with their friends. Kindergarten and Grade 1 have PE class two times a week for a total of 90 min., Pre K has PE class for a total of 40 min. per week.
Grade 2 and Grade 3: We have focused on preparing the children for the State Physical Fitness Testing Program that they will take in grades 4, 6, 8, and 10, during our warm ups. We begin our mile run/walk in each class and introduce the children to the “Running Club”. We have played some indoor soccer on the days we couldn’t get outside and introduced the children how to safely use the “Fitness Lab” equipment.
Please help make sure your child wears (or brings) sneakers and a water bottle each day they PE class, for both their safety and comfort. As Oct. rolls around, your child may also want to bring a sweatshirt to PE class, as we try to go outside for PE class until about Thanksgiving time, weather permitting.
If anyone has any used exercise equipment that you no longer use, we would be more than happy, and appreciative, to add it to our Fitness Lab. Just let us know and we will figure out a way to get it to the school, thanks!
Please feel free to contact us at any time about anything you might have any questions about.
See everyone at Open House on Sept. 20 and 21!
Coach Ruel
Coach Boscarino
