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).

Middle School

We will be finishing up with President’s testing over the next few classes.  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.  We are not yet done with the mile in every class, so we will be continuing until finished—please have students bring inhalers if they have them or need them.

Grades 3 (including Mrs. Elliot’s class), 4, and 5

We will continue with 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.  We are not yet done with the mile in every class, so we will be continuing until finished—please have students bring inhalers if they have them or need them.

Grade 2 (Mrs. Norman’s class)

We will continue a Wiffle Ball unit.  We will start playing games this week and we will use “pitcher’s hand”—if the fielding team gets the ball back to the pitcher before the hitter runs from home to first base, the hitter is out.

First Grade and Kindergarten

We will continue our soccer unit.  We will play soccer games this week.  The classes will be broken up into small teams, so there is more of an opportunity for sharing the ball with one another as we play.

Preschool

This past Friday was our last day of class for the year.  The preschool will have their graduation next Friday.

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.