What is going on in Physical Education?
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- Published on Thursday, 01 December 2011 13:57
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Green Street School
Physical Education
K-6:
Lesson Focus: Fitness
-We have been working on our cardiovascular fitness as well as our muscular strength and endurance. Students will take part in each class doing various fitness routines and activities designed to improve these aspects of their fitness.
Kindergarten-Second Grade
LESSON FOCUS:
- Students are well into our fitness unit. We will be learning about the importance of Aerobic fitness and its health benefits. The activities that will be incorporated during this unit will include: paced walking, jogging, running, rope jumping, climbing the transverse wall and dance.
- We are also getting into the NCAA March Madness theme. We will be working on basketball skills such as dribbling, passing and shooting over the next couple of weeks.
Third- Sixth Grade
LESSON FOCUS:
-We are well into our Fitness Unit. We have been doing many activities that focus on improving our cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition. Some activities include playing games that include moderate to vigorous aerobic activity, climbing ropes, using the transverse climbing wall and dance.
- We are also getting into the NCAA March Madness theme. We will be working on basketball skills such as dribbling, passing, lay ups and shooting jump shots over the next couple of weeks. The students have learned about the college basketball tournament, a brief history of the game, some basic rules and finally learning skills to make this game a lifelong activity to enjoy with friends and family.
Adventure Education fifth and sixth grade:
-The activities we have been completing in adventure education have incorporated elements of cooperation, trust, team building, communication, strategizing, goal setting, showing positive effort, respect for self, others and the equipment as well as safety.
March's Adventure Activities:
-"Attached at the ........"-Game involves students to work with a partner and move from a line to another line attaching themselves with a yarn ball. (At the waist, head, elbow, ankle ect..)
-"Group Movement"- Teams of four work together as a group going from a line to another line performing multiple tasks. For example all group members must be touching one other foot.
-"Life Boats"- Activity that involves multiple skills. Two to Three teams will move from one end of the gym " a sinking ship" to the other end of the gym "the mainland" By using a scooter " lifeboat" and a jump rope. There are also three Islands "hula hoops" placed about fifteen feet apart between the sinking ship and the mainland. Also students can only go one at a time on the lifeboat but multiple people can stand on the islands if needed. They may not be pushed by partners and they may not push of any walls, also they cannot touch the floor with any body part or they will have to start over, no matter how far they have gotten. And you must pull your way to safety to get to the mainland.