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!