Welcome back Good Sports and Families. Hope you had a great summer and you were active and had fun!
I'm always looking forward to great P.E. classes with you, so please bring those smiles and wear your sneakers. "Fitness and Fun" will always be our theme, via various avenues, as well as practicing and improving many skills, with adaptations in place as needed. We will always reinforce our rules, stay organized, and work together as a gym "team" reaching for healthy goals in a positive, safe environment, while reinforcing P.E. Standards and behavior management and cooperation.
As of now, our Fitness Friday activity will be done in our P.E. classroom on occasion. Remember, regular exercise boosts academic performance! Way to go when you are active at school and also outside of school.
During our first 2 cycles, we will participate in many students' favorite activity: tag games. Tag games promote great exercise, honesty and Good Sportsmanship. Tag games develop running(or other locomotor skills as directed), dodging and proper tagging skills, body control , game and safety rules and most of all, tag games are "fun!" These activities will get us going for our first physical fitness test for running: "Dash"-K; "Shuttle Run"-1-6.Speed& Agility). As previously mentioned, adaptations and modifications are always made and applied for those needing them.
In our P.E. Classes, we are totally engaged in "real-life" skills, demonstrating teamwork, checking our thinking skills with essential questions, showing responsibility, making good choices, following activity rules, moving safely, and being respectful "Good Sports."
Another application of real-life skills is having a different "Leader Squad" each week assist in leading warm-ups, assisting with games, skills stations, and helping with equipment needs. Thank you, great helpers! You will be great Leaders in your future and you will be successful.
Please remember, there are activities and special goals to suit everyone. In the meantime, practice your skills and KEEP EXERCISING !!! I'll see you soon in P.E. Class! Sincerely, Miss Brill
