This Week's Agenda

February is AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month, Heart Month, International Prenatal Infection Awareness Month, National Children’s Dental Health Month, Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (7-14), National Donor Day (14).

Middle School

We will continue our Handball unit.  We have incorporated some rules to promote movement and sharing the ball, which have really helped out the play of the game during class.

Grades 4/5

We have started a Handball unit.  Our focus so far has been on the basic rules of the sport and the history.  We will play during class, working on teamwork and movement.

Grades 2/3

We will continue to work on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist, but we will start to work on passing.  Our biggest focus with this will be to have proper hand placement on the ball prior to passing.  We want our hand placement to be in shooting form on the ball, so we can maintain a triple threat of shooting, passing, or dribbling.

Kindergarten/Grade 1

We will complete throwing and catching this week—we had a few hiccups last week with this.  We have been playing the A, B, C game (each completed catch represents a letter of the alphabet and the ultimate goal is to get from A-Z without dropping the ball).  The students have come a long way since we first started the process of learning how to throw and catch.

Preschool

We will work on stretches, some movement activities going sideline to sideline, some free time using the PE equipment.  We will also start to work on tossing a beanbag with a partner.

As always, it is expected that each student is to come to class each day with their gym uniform, have a good attitude, ready to learn, and ready to work.

This Week's Agenda

February is AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month, Heart Month, International Prenatal Infection Awareness Month, National Children’s Dental Health Month, Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (7-14), National Donor Day (14).

Middle School

We are phasing out our team building activities that we started after we came back from Christmas break.  The students have worked hard in this area over the last month.  We will still have reminders in class, when necessary, but we will be moving on to other things during class time, including the continuation of our Handball Unit.

The middle school has won a structured dance party that will be held on Tuesday February 21 that is sponsored by Radio Disney from 7:55-8:55 am.  The students received a pedometer and had to fill out a sheet of paper in the fall to see if they were able to do 30 minutes of physical activity, daily, as part of a physical activity challenge put on by the Indiana Sports Corporation and Radio Disney.  Due to our participation and success with the challenge, Radio Disney has selected the middle school to participate in the structured dance that will take place in the gym on Tuesday morning.  All middle school students should wear their normal PE uniforms on Tuesday to school.

Our schedule for middle school Unified Arts will change this week, due to the dance party.  Monday and Friday will both be “B” days (that is 6^th grade for PE) and Thursday will be an “A” day (8^th grade for PE).  The “C” group (7^th grade for PE) will not meet with me this week and we will go back to our regular rotation next week.

Grades 4/5

Just like the middle school, we are phasing out the team building activities during class time.  We will start a Handball Unit.  We will learn the basic rules of the sport and some basic history of the sport along with playing it. 

Grades 2/3
We are working on a basketball unit, focusing on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist.  We have been working on two-basketball dribbling as well to get both our left and right brains thinking at the same time, and some ball-handling to help improve our one-ball dribbling and we have been playing Dribble Tag.  We will start to talk about 3 types of passes (chest pass, bounce pass, and over the head pass) and learn when to use each and we will work on them as well.

Kindergarten/Grade 1
This will be our final week with partner throwing and catching overhand.  We have been playing the A, B, C game (each completed catch represents a letter of the alphabet and the ultimate goal is to get from A-Z without dropping the ball).  The students have come a long way since we first started the process of learning how to throw and catch.

Preschool

We will work on stretches, some movement activities going sideline to sideline, Simon Says, and some free time using the PE equipment.  We will also start to work on tossing a beanbag with a partner.

As always, it is expected that each student is to come to class each day with their gym uniform, have a good attitude, ready to learn, and ready to work.

This Week's Agenda

February is AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month, Heart Month, International Prenatal Infection Awareness Month, National Children’s Dental Health Month, Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (7-14), National Donor Day (14).

Middle School

We have been working on different teamwork activities and thoughts concerning teammates, treating each other the right way, etc.  We are all a part of a team in some way, shape or form even though we may not play on an athletic team.  Our goals for this: to think about the words we use with others, a sense of belonging on a team and the realization that each piece of that team is important, and the power a group of people together can accomplish when they have the same goal in mind.  We will be using both Physical Education and Health State Standards as we work on this.  We have been working on a teamwork activity where the students form a human knot with their hands and they have to untangle themselves.  It is great for communication, leadership, and followership.  We are in the process of finishing up the teamwork piece, but we will continue to use it from time to time during class.  We are working on a Handball unit that the students seem to enjoy very much—working on passing, proper footwork (3 steps with the ball), and playing man to man defense.  Our goals are to have participation from all and sharing the ball with each other.

Grades 4/5

We have been working on different teamwork activities and thoughts concerning teammates, treating each other the right way, etc.  We are all a part of a team in some way, shape or form even though we may not play on an athletic team.  Our goals for this: to think about the words we use with others, a sense of belonging on a team and the realization that each piece of that team is important, and the power a group of people together can accomplish when they have the same goal in mind.  We will be using both Physical Education and Health State Standards as we work on this.  The students have really been working hard to come together and focus on the teamwork activities as a group, not just individuals, and choosing our words carefully.  We have also been working on the human knot, just as the middle school has.  We are in the process of finishing up the teamwork piece, but we will continue to use it from time to time during class.  We will also work on another teamwork game that is a movement game.

Grades 2/3

We are working on a basketball unit, focusing on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist.  We have been working on two-basketball dribbling as well to get both our left and right brains thinking at the same time, and some ball-handling to help improve our one-ball dribbling and we will play Dribble Tag, a dribbling game that we learned last week.

Kindergarten/Grade 1

We have begun work on partner overhand throwing.  The students are realizing that they cannot throw the ball as hard as they did against the wall with a teammate and they have shown some very good improvement.  We will add the A, B, C game as well (each completed catch represents a letter of the alphabet and the ultimate goal is to get from A-Z without dropping the ball).  We will also work with the jump ropes and do some movement activities.

Preschool
We will work on stretches, some movement activities going sideline to sideline, Simon Says, and some free time using the PE equipment.

As always, it is expected that each student is to come to class each day with their gym uniform, have a good attitude, ready to learn, and ready to work.

This Week's Agenda

February is AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month, Heart Month, International Prenatal Infection Awareness Month, National Children’s Dental Health Month, Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (7-14), National Donor Day (14).

I hope everyone enjoys their Super Bowl experiences and their weekend!

Middle School

Manners Day for 8^th grade will be Tuesday February 7.  We will still have our normal PE classes that morning for 8^th grade.  The Band/Choir students will be let early to change clothes.

We have been working on different teamwork activities and thoughts concerning teammates, treating each other the right way, etc.  We are all a part of a team in some way, shape or form even though we may not play on an athletic team.  Our goals for this: to think about the words we use with others, a sense of belonging on a team and the realization that each piece of that team is important, and the power a group of people together can accomplish when they have the same goal in mind.  We will be using both Physical Education and Health State Standards as we work on this.  We have been working on a teamwork activity where the students form a human knot with their hands and they have to untangle themselves.  It is great for communication, leadership, and followership.  We are working on a Handball unit that the students seem to enjoy very much—working on passing, proper footwork (3 steps with the ball), and playing man to man defense.  Our goals are to have participation from all and sharing the ball with each other.

 Grades 4/5

We have been working on different teamwork activities and thoughts concerning teammates, treating each other the right way, etc.  We are all a part of a team in some way, shape or form even though we may not play on an athletic team.  Our goals for this: to think about the words we use with others, a sense of belonging on a team and the realization that each piece of that team is important, and the power a group of people together can accomplish when they have the same goal in mind.  We will be using both Physical Education and Health State Standards as we work on this.  The students have really been working hard to come together and focus on the teamwork activities as a group, not just individuals, and choosing our words carefully.  We have also been working on the human knot, just as the middle school has been.  We will continue to work on this with the goal that each group that is split up during class time has success with it.  We will also work on another teamwork game that is a movement game.

 Grades 2/3

We are working on a basketball unit, focusing on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist.  We have been working on two-basketball dribbling as well to get both our left and right brains thinking at the same time, and some ball-handling to help improve our one-ball dribbling and we will learn a dribbling game and play it.

 Kindergarten/Grade 1

We have begun work on partner overhand throwing.  The students are realizing that they cannot throw the ball as hard as they did against the wall with a teammate and they have shown some very good improvement.  We will add the A, B, C game as well (each completed catch represents a letter of the alphabet and the ultimate goal is to get from A-Z without dropping the ball).  We will also work with the jump ropes and do some movement activities.

 Preschool

We will work on stretches, some movement activities going sideline to sideline; follow the leader, Simon Says, and some free time using the PE equipment.

As always, it is expected that each student is to come to class each day with their gym uniform, have a good attitude, ready to learn, and ready to work.