This Week's Agenda

May is Arthritis Awareness Month, Better Hearing and Speech Month, Global Employee Health and Fitness Month, Healthy Vision Month, Hepatitis Awareness Month, Lupus Awareness Month, Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, Mental Health Month, National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, National Celiac Disease Awareness Month, National High Blood Pressure Education Month, National Mediterranean Diet Month, National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, Ultraviolet Awareness Month, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week (6-12), North American Occupational Safety and Health Week (6-12), National Stuttering Awareness Week (7-13), Air Quality Awareness Week (7-11), Food Allergy Awareness Week (13-19), National Women’s Health Week (13-19), Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week (21-27), Heat Safety Awareness Day (25), National Senior Health and Fitness Day (30), and World No Tobacco Day (31).

With I-STEP this week, the schedule has changed:

Middle School—we will have physical activity each day for 20 minutes (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday—Mass Day is Friday, which is why we will meet on Wednesday).  Middle school students should wear their normal PE clothes Monday-Thursday.

Kindergarten

Catton—Tuesday only
Hill—Monday and Thursday

First Grade

Ahonen—Wednesday and Friday
O’Neal—Monday and Friday

Second Grade

Norman—Monday and Thursday

Third Grade

Elliot—Wednesday only
Ray—Tuesday and Friday

Fourth Grade

Eastman—Wednesday only

Fifth Grade
Glenn—Tuesday and Friday
McMahon—Monday and Thursday

Middle School

Mrs. Chappelow will be aiding me and we will have half of the middle school for 20 minutes each day (Monday-Thursday).  The plan will be that a group of students will be with me doing one of the tests for President’s testing during the 20 minutes each of the four days we will have this schedule this week.  As a reminder, President’s testing is a series of Physical Education tests that gauge muscular strength, muscular endurance, speed and quickness, and flexibility among others.  The tests include pull-ups, curl-ups, flex arm hang, shuttle run, pushups, sit and reach, mile run, and I have added an additional test and that is the pole climb on the playground.  Students must show progress from their first quarter results and we will be tracking results in journals.

Grades 3 (including Mrs. Elliot’s class), 4, and 5
We will be continuing President’s testing—a series of Physical Education tests that gauge muscular strength, muscular endurance, speed and quickness, and flexibility among others.  The tests include pull-ups, curl-ups, flex arm hang, shuttle run, pushups, sit and reach, mile run, and I have added an additional test and that is the pole climb on the playground.  Students must show progress from their first quarter results.

Grade 2 (Mrs. Norman’s class)

We will continue a Wiffle Ball unit.  We have been working in stations on throwing and catching, swinging the bat level, and fielding.  We started talking about force outs vs. non-force outs last week and started to demonstrate what each looks like and we will continue to work on it this week.  We will also work on hitting the ball this week as well.

First Grade and Kindergarten

We will continue our soccer unit.  We started station work last week on kicking a short distance using the inside middle part of our foot and stopping the ball by putting our foot on top of it and working on goalie skills—catching and blocking the ball with our hands.  We will continue to work on these things along with kicking a longer distance—using our toe.

Preschool

We will not meet this week due to the I-STEP schedule and we will not meet Friday May 11 (Noon dismissal due to the Annual Fund Dinner the night before).

 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.