Hi Good Sports and Families. Welcome back! I'll be glad to hear how you've been active this summer. As always, I'm looking forward to a great school year in P.E. class, so bring your smiles and sneakers.
"Fitness and fun" will "always" be our theme in P.E. class, as well as practicing and improving many skills, while always providing adaptations as needed.
We will discuss our rules, get organized, and work together as a gym team that reaches for healthy goals in a positive environment while reinforcing our P.E. Standards.
We will continue our "Fitness Friday" activity, when the entire school participates in an exercise activity with me to get their day off to a great start, thus promoting healthy goals. As we know, regular exercise boosts academic performance! Way to go! If scheduling allows, some Walking Clubs will take place.
During our first 2 cycles, we will participate in special activities and 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 prepare us for our 1st physical fitness test for running. As previously mentioned, adaptations are always made and applied for those that need them.
At some point, we will be working on Student Learning Objectives and we'll focus on an upper body strength fitness test for an age group to check for growth and improvements.
In P.E. class, we are totally engaged in " real-life" skills demonstrating teamwork, responsibility, good choices, following rules of games and safety rules, and being respectful, Good Sports.. Another application of real-life skills is having a different " Leader Squad" assist in our activities each week. Thank you for great helpers! You will be great leaders of the future.
In the meantime, Keep Exercising, until I see you in your next gym class! See you soon,
Sincerely, Miss Brill
