This Week's Agenda

Parents,

Due to our middle school schedule, we are still finishing up President's Testing. The General Music classes are typically larger than the Band/Choir classes, so they take a bit longer to finish things up. The classes that have completed Testing will talk about ways that we can improve our Testing for the fourth quarter when we do it again.  We will also work on various fitness station work with the groups that have finished to continue to build on our principles from President's Testing.

Third, Fourth and fifth grades are also finishing Testing and have started talking about specific ways to improve for the fourth quarter. We will start to work on jump rope after stretches daily as well.

Second grade has started work with the jump ropes, focusing on forward (regular) first. This will be a daily activity that we do after we stretch. It is truly amazing how much improved a student is on the jump rope after we do it for several weeks. We will play a movement game as well that works on teamwork.

First grade is in the initial stages of learning how to jump rope. Returning students from last year know how to do this and have done a great job so far. Our focus is with our new students and practicing the concept of hand, eye, foot coordination.

Kindergarten will start to work on the jump ropes (multi-step process using balance and coordination). We will also play a tag game that involves teamwork and cardiovasular endurance.

If a student is injured or is sick, please provide a doctor note, so I have documentation of what a student can or can't do during class.
We will be incorporating various Math terminology into classes to assist in the process of helping our entire school pull up our Math scores on state testing (I-STEP).

Have a Great Week and Good Luck Sports Teams!