Agenda For The Week After Spring Break (April 2-6)

April is National Alcohol Awareness Month, Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month, National Autism Awareness Month, National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, National Donate Life Month, National Facial Protection Month, National Minority Health Month, National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month, Occupational Therapy Month, Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Month, Sports Eye Safety Awareness Month, Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month, National Public Health Week (2-8), National Alcohol Screening Day (5), World Health Day (7), National Infant Immunization Week (21-28), Safe Kids Week (21-28), and World Meningitis Day (24).

We will be focusing on movement activities this week with all classes.  We will try to go outside as much as we possibly can, so please check the weather and have the students dress accordingly with their proper gym uniforms.

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.

HAVE A GREAT AND SAFE SPRING BREAK!

This Week's Agenda

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, National Endometriosis Awareness Month, National Nutrition Month, Save Your Vision Month, Workplace Eye Wellness Month, Trisomy Awareness Month, National Sleep Awareness Week (5-11 This is during I-STEP Week), National School Breakfast Week (5-11 This is during I-STEP Week), World Kidney Day (8), National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10), Brain Awareness Week (12-18), National Poison Prevention Week (18-24), National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (20), World Tuberculosis Day (24), National Tsunami Awareness Week (25-31), and American Diabetes Alert Day (27).

Middle School

We now have a new rotation for Unified Arts due to Annual Fund Dinner rehearsals (X and XX, Y and YY, and Z and ZZ classes).  We will maintain these new rotations for the duration of the school year—not just until the A.F.D.   If students are having trouble remembering which group they are in or which days they have PE, it would be a good idea to write down which days they have PE in student planners for the rest of the year to stay organized.  We will do some movement activities this week.

Grades 4/5
We will be spending some time outside this week with some movement activities.

Grades 2/3

We will continue to work on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist.  We will continue to work on passing with a focus on 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.  We have been working on chest passing and bounce passing.  We will work on over the head passing this week.  We will also be spending some time outside.

Kindergarten/Grade 1

We have been working on dribbling a basketball.  The focus has been on knees bent, using fingertips, controlling the ball below our waist, and trying to keep our eyes up as much as possible.  We have also started to work on different kinds of warm-up activities (lead ups) to dribbling and we will add a couple of them each class as we continue to focus on dribbling.  Most of our dribbling so far has been in our squads to start working on eyes looking up and not looking at the basketball, but we have started to use the entire basketball court, which will promote eyes looking up so we can see where we are going and not running into other students.

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.

HAVE A GREAT AND SAFE SPRING BREAK!

This Week's Agenda

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, National Endometriosis Awareness Month, National Nutrition Month, Save Your Vision Month, Workplace Eye Wellness Month, Trisomy Awareness Month, National Sleep Awareness Week (5-11 This is during I-STEP Week), National School Breakfast Week (5-11 This is during I-STEP Week), World Kidney Day (8), National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10), Brain Awareness Week (12-18), National Poison Prevention Week (18-24), National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (20), World Tuberculosis Day (24), National Tsunami Awareness Week (25-31), and American Diabetes Alert Day (27).

A reminder: the third quarter ends on Friday (March 16).

Middle School

We will have a new rotation for Unified Arts due to Annual Fund Dinner rehearsals.  We will bring the middle school into the gym Monday morning and explain the new rotation—it is a little confusing at first, but the students should be able to pick it up quickly, once they know what group they will be in.  We will maintain these new rotations for the duration of the school year—not just until the A.F.D.   We will be finishing up our handball unit this week with our new classes.

Grades 4/5
We will conclude our handball unit this week, which will end our teamwork unit that we started in January.  The students have made progress in many areas with our teamwork activities.

Grades 2/3

We will continue to work on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist.  We will continue to work on passing with a focus on 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.  We have been working on chest passing and will start to work on bounce passing.

Kindergarten/Grade 1

We have started working on dribbling a basketball.  The focus has been on knees bent, using fingertips, controlling the ball below our waist, and trying to keep our eyes up as much as possible.  We have also started to work on different kinds of warm-up activities (lead ups) to dribbling and we will add a couple of them each class as we continue to focus on dribbling.  Most of our dribbling so far has been in our squads to start working on eyes looking up and not looking at the basketball, but we will start to use the entire basketball court, which will promote eyes looking up so we can see where we are going and not running into other students.

Preschool

We will continue to work on our stretches, tossing beanbags underhand with partners, and free time—active time to explore with the P.E. 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.

THANK YOU FOR 14 YEARS OF GREAT MEMORIES #18!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

This Week's Agenda

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, National Endometriosis Awareness Month, National Nutrition Month, Save Your Vision Month, Workplace Eye Wellness Month, Trisomy Awareness Month, National Sleep Awareness Week (5-11 This is during I-STEP Week), National School Breakfast Week (5-11 This is during I-STEP Week), World Kidney Day (8), National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10), Brain Awareness Week (12-18), National Poison Prevention Week (18-24), National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (20), World Tuberculosis Day (24), National Tsunami Awareness Week (25-31), and American Diabetes Alert Day (27).

Middle School

We will not have traditional PE classes for middle school this week, due to I-STEP testing.  We will have larger than normal groups and our focus will simply be on movement in order to wake the middle school students up in the mornings before they start testing.  Middle school students should wear PE clothes Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday (not Wednesday due to Mass).  We will be going outside, weather permitting.

Grades 4/5

We will continue our Handball units this week, but we will also add some relay races and other movement activities to help promote movement with I-STEP testing.  The schedule has changed a bit this week due to testing (Eastman Wednesday March 7 PE only, McMahon Monday and Thursday March 5 and 8, Glenn Tuesday and Friday March 6 and 9).

Grades 2/3

We will continue to work on dribbling—knees bent, head up, using our fingertips, and dribbling the ball below our waist.  We will continue to work on passing with a focus on 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.  Our schedule has also changed due to testing (Norman Monday and Thursday March 5 and 8, Elliot Wednesday March 7 only, Ray Tuesday and Friday March 6 and 9).

Kindergarten/Grade 1
We will start working on dribbling a basketball.  The focus will be on knees bent, using fingertips, controlling the ball below our waist, and trying to keep our eyes up as much as possible.  The schedule for the week has changed as well (Catton Tuesday March 6 only, Hill Monday and Thursday March 5 and 8, Ahonen Wednesday and Friday March 7 and 9—same days as normal just different times, and O’Neal Monday and Friday March 5 and 9).

Preschool

We will not meet this week due to I-STEP testing.

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.