8/29/11 to 10/4/11, Inclusive

H i Good Sports! We've gotten off to a pretty good start for this school year. We are all part of a great team working together for super healthy goals. Our theme through-out the year is always fitness and fun! Our first fitness test has been moving along. Kindergarten does a dash, while 1st through 6th grade does the "shuttle run." I see some future track stars!! Adaptations are always made as needed through-out any and all of our activities that we do for any student needing them. So far , we have worked on many physical skills at our skills stations for self-improvement, fun and great exercise. Our locomotor lane is the area to practice and improve our locomotor skills which transfer to many sports and games. Reinforcing and keeping up practice of these basic skills improves coordination and timing and provides great exercise! We've participated in a variety of fun tag games, some rhythmical activities, parachute activities and have currently enjoyed some awesome Flag Tag games. We have been working on our football throwing skills (our younger students throwing at our X targets on the wall and our older students throwing accurately to their receiver in our file relay skill station. The word "accurate" was our most recent vocabulary word. Some of our other vocabulary words were: physical fitness, safety, responsibility, leadership, good sports, rules, illustrations, cooperation and teamwork. Our youngest students listened to a story about Billy Bully and some listened to a story called Get up and Go, both stories helping to teach concepts kids need to know. By the way, my personal acronym for the word "GYM" is Get Yourself Moving!! We've completed some worksheets when we needed to hold P.E. classes in the student's classrooms if the gym was used for special reasons. We will always support and promote positive interactions and learning about real-life skills as well as physical skill variety and fun activities. Remember to exercise and work-out at home and in after school activities. My schedule will only allow an occasional Walking Club. I'll do my best. Please participate with me in our Fitness Friday Fun! See you soon in P.E. class with sneakers and smiles! Get ready for more action! P.S. Go Spartans! and Go Phillies!!! Keep exercising! Sincerely, Miss Brill