Hello everyone! It’s been a cold month, but it hasn’t slowed us down! In middle school this month we have been focusing on fitness. Pictured below are some of our 7th and 8th graders playing exercise tag and Basketball. We are calling this class our Pre Athletic class. We focus a lot on sport skills and fitness. When our students graduate into public school, they will be ready to try out for any team they so desire. When we come back from Winter Break, we are going to have a Badminton and Basketball tournament. The students will be placed on teams and we will play a round robin style tournament. They will put their skills to work, practice keeping score, and following the sport rules. The students are excited and so am I! Be sure to return back for more pictures.

We are focusing on Badminton and Basketball for the month of February. 5th - 8th grade are reviewing skills and rules while preparing for a Basketball and Badminton Tournament. 1st - 4th grade will be learning and practicing their Badminton serves and return skills. 3rd and 4th grade will work up to learning how to keep score and will play small games. Kindergarten will use paddles to practice passing a balloon back and forth with a partner. This is a great hand-eye coordination activity along with learning how to take turns. The paddle and balloons are a lead up activity to badminton. Next year in 1st grade the students will replace the balloon with a birdie. Below are some pictures of students practicing their serves and returns. Also, you will find a picture of a student helping another student with a new skill.

This month has been going by pretty fast. We have been working on so many things! In PreK, we have been working on tossing, catching, kicking, balancing, and spinning. In Middle School we are turning our focus to basketball and badminton for a bit. The students are very excited to start basketball. Due to covid, we will alter how we play, limiting our numbers on the court. We want the students to have a good time and stay safe. This month I am posting pictures of our pre schoolers. I am also including a couple of pictures from our After School Program. Our After School Program is offered to those families who need extended care for their children. We work on homework, offer a snack, and enjoy socializing during our free time. Pictured below are some of our younger students working on their homework.

Hello everyone! I can’t believe we are at the end of 2020. We have been very busy in class. The Primary - Kindergarten have been working on their tossing and catching skills and the 1st - 8th graders just finished their first Fitness Checks. When we return in January, Lower and Middle school are going to focus on Badminton and Basketball while Primary continues with working on their tossing/throwing, catching skills. Pictured below are some of our Primary students working on their tossing skills by tossing their turtles into a pond. This is a great activity for them to work on hand/eye coordination. I hope everyone has a Merry Çhristmas and a Happy New Year!

Welcome! This month in Primary P.E. we are working on balance and catching. The students are walking forward, sideways, and backwards on a low profile balance beam. Pre School and Kindergarten are also working on balance and catching. They will be learning a new game that requires tossing and catching. Our middle schoolers are refining their Volleyball skills, getting ready to be teamed up for a few Volleyball games.

We just finished our first Fitness Checks for the year for our 1st - 8th graders. The top 2 students in each class will have their names and results listed on our top fitness board in the gym. I will be posting the results soon. Enjoy the pictures and come back to see our Fitness Board.

This week we have been working on gross motor movements with our Primary students. They have been hopping, galloping, jumping, rolling, spinning, and learning the difference between pushing and pulling. Pictured below are some of our Primary students pushing and pulling themselves on scooters. They were using their arms and their legs to push and pull.

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Welcome back to all my students and parents! We are taking precautions in PE every day. We are sanitizing our hands and our equipment before and after each class. We are limiting our activities to assure social distancing. And since we ended the year early last year, I am starting with some of our sports that we didn’t get to cover last year. So in Middle School, we are starting out with Volleyball and Badminton. We will be playing these sports both inside and outside as the weather cools off a bit. Our Pre Schoolers are learning about the gym rules, how to treat our equipment, and starting with our stations. Pictured below are some of our students enjoying their daily PE class. Click on the picture to see the next picture. Enjoy and come back soon to see what we will be doing next!

It has been a very wet month and busy month. We have completed our 2nd Fitness Check for this year. I will be going over the results with each student and discussing their progress and what they need to work on. We will now focus on Volleyball and Badminton. 5th - 8th will be doing both sports. We will review skills and rules, then we will apply them in games. 1st - 4th will be doing Badminton. We will also review and practice serving and all the strokes needed for Badminton. The court will be introduced to 2nd grade and will practice keeping the birdie in play. I will have pictures next time of the students learning and enjoying their sport of the month.

Welcome back, everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas break. I was so excited to see everyone Monday. This month in PE we are going to focus on Jumping Rope, Basketball, and our Fitness Checks in grades 1-8. PreK will focus on jumping over a lightly swung rope swinging back and forth while Kindergarten learns how to jump over a turning rope. 1st - 6th grade will review their jump roping skills. 3rd - 8th will practice basketball skills: dribbling, passing, shooting, defending. And all of 1st - 8th will do their Fitness Checks. They will be tested on their: sit-ups, push-ups, shuttle run, flexibility, and time on their laps. Our goal is to improve. We will look at our scores from September and hopefully we will be able to see some improvement. This is a great tool to show the students their progress and how regular exercises can improve their health. Pictures below are some of our 3rd and 4th graders jumping rope.

Welcome to PE in December. This month we are working on balancing with our Pre K and Kinder classes. We are also continuing Basketball with 3rd grade on up, along with Self-Defense with our 7th/8th graders. Pictured below are some students practicing balance by walking heel-to-toe. It’s still common for some students to still have trouble with this concept. As you will notice, some students are actually stepping on their feet trying to walk heel-to-toe. Also pictured below are some of our Kinders working on their core strength and balance by spinning on their scooters. For our 5th and 6th graders, they were using scooters to play a game that involved their leg muscles, core muscles, strategy, teamwork, and communication. For our 7th and 8th grade class, the students are starting to learn more about kicks in their Martial Arts class. They are learning how to strike, how to evade, how to advance, and how to strike and evade. I don’t think it is ever too early to learn how to defend yourself. I hope you enjoy the pictures, come back soon to see what we are up to!

Lower School had book character day for Halloween. They got to pick a book they have read, do a book report on it, and dress up as a character in the book. So what do you do when your students come to class in their costumes? You have fun! Pictured below are some of our students enjoying a day in PE in their costumes. Some played keep away, while others play with hula hoops and played wall ball. The weather this month has turned wet and cold. On some days, the students were not able to enjoy their outdoor recess. So we decided to take advantage of one of our nice weather days and went outside for some fresh air. Also pictured below are some of our students enjoying some outdoor play. Our 7th and 8th-grade classes are extremely lucky to have a volunteer to come to teach them self-defense. Once a week, Master Juwana comes and works with the students. She is teaching them about balance, striking against predators, how to get away from holds and run away. She is also teaching them about discipline and respect. Pictured below are some of our students learning what part of the fist is used to strike. Also pictured is a student learning what to do if grabbed by the shirt by a bully. Come back soon and see what we are doing next!

This year we have added a Tennis Team for our middle school students. Our 7th and 8th graders practice 1 day a week during PE class, and 2 days a week after school. We are very thankful Coach Rusty is heading up this team. Pictured below are just a few of the members of the team. This is brand new to some of our students. They are learning the basic strokes, rules, teamwork, and strategies needed to play the game Tennis. We are also starting a unit on self-defense. Our 7th and 8th graders have a guest instructor that comes to class once a week and teaches them about Martial Arts. They have learned that Martial Arts is not just about kicking and punching, its also about discipline and self-control.

Also pictured below are some of our 6th graders. They had a great time last week on their trip to Mo-Ranch. They had the opportunity to learn how to work better as a team. They learned that in order to be a leader, they need to be able to listen and follow as well. They were given physical tasks that they had to work together to solve. I must say, this group did fantastic at problem-solving.

Be sure to check back with my page soon, I will have more pictures to share. I will be posting pictures of our Martial Arts class soon!!!!

Welcome to PE in October! We are in the process of doing our first Fitness Check of the school year this week. The students in 1st-8th grade are tested in 5 areas: Sit Ups, Push Ups, Flexibility, Agility, and Running. We do a fitness check every 3 months to mark our progress. 5th - 8th are also working on their volleyball skills in a drill we call Circle Bump. The students have to use their passing skills to keep the ball off of the floor. Pictured below are some of our 7th and 8th-grade students working together to accomplish that task in our Pre-Athlete class. Also pictured below are some of our 3 yr olds practicing the concept of “over, under, through”. This station is part of our Action Based Learning Lab that we do twice a week. The Lab is a series of progressions and stations, each designed to prepare the brain for input and processing.

We are having a great time in class! We are learning about space awareness, how to work together in activities, and how to be a good leader. Pictured below we have our Pre School group working on their jumping skill and body awareness in space. We are also working on understanding what it means to: go over/under/through something. This will help them with their writing skills when they start writing their letters. Also pictured below we have one of our middle school classes doing their daily warm ups. I like to use exercise leaders some in my class. This gives the students an opportunity to choose their exercises, stretches, and work on their leadership skills. And last, we have a middle school class playing a game called Ultimate Frisbee. We practiced throwing and catching a frisbee in lower school last year and I told them we would put all the skills together into a game in middle school. Well, they love the game! This game works the cardiovascular system, works on communication, team work, agility, and group cooperation. This game can be played inside, outside, and even at recess. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

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We are starting to get back into routine after returning from summer break.  I have enjoyed hearing about all the adventures the students experienced over their break.  I want to welcome all the new students that have joined us this year. We started our week reviewing emergency plans and the rules for in the gym.  Middle school began with their exercise leaders running the daily warm ups. This is a great way to practice leadership skills. Lower school reviewed and learned how to read the warm up board and how to stretch their legs the proper way.  Pre School began learning how to move around in the gym, practiced space awareness, how to freeze and listen to instructions, and how to use the equipment in class. Pictured below are some of our classes during their first week of school. I will post pictures throughout the year of each class.  Be sure to come back and visit my page, you might catch your child having some fun!

This year has really flown by!  Looking back, we have done a lot in P.E.  We have played Basketball, Flag Football, Volleyball, Badminton, Lacrosse, Dodgeball, Ultimate Frisbee, and many other games. We also learned how to work with others, how to compromise, and how to be a good competitor.  Lacrosse was a new sport for us this year. It took us a little while to learn how to use our stick to catch and throw. As we practiced new skills for this game, we also learned how to persevere. It took many tries to learn how to catch a ball with a stick, and many more tries to learn how to throw it.  Not only did the students get better as they practiced, they learned how to not give up. Today we got to put all of those skills into action. Pictured below are our Middle School students (4th-7th grade) enjoying a day outside playing Lacrosse.

Happy Spring!  We have been patiently waiting for the weather to cooperate with us so we can get outside for class!  Our 4th-7th graders have been practicing throwing and catching using Lacrosse equipment. This is something new for them to learn about. I introduced the students to the equipment in the Fall, now we are getting ready to learn how to play Lacrosse P.E. style!  I introduced the frisbee to our 2nd and 3rd graders. They are having so much fun learning how to throw and catch the frisbee. With Easter coming up, this would make a great item for those easter baskets! With a little more practice throwing and catching, I am going to teach our 2nd and 3rd graders a game using a frisbee.  And the great thing about this is, it can be played in your own backyard! All you will need is a frisbee and some cones. So be ready parents, your child is going to love this game! Pictured below are some of our students practicing while enjoying the weather outside.

Who doesn’t like Volleyball?  Pictured below are some of our 4th and 5th graders learning how to use their arms to pass a volleyball.  They are learning how to work with their peers, how to problem solve, how to communicate, and how to be cooperative in a group activity.  We will soon learn how to serve the ball, the rules, and how to keep score. Then we will put all of that together in some friendly games. Come back soon to look for some game pictures!

We have returned back to Badminton to work on our team work skills and hand-eye coordination.  The students LOVE Badminton. In pre K we introduce visual tracking: tracking of a moving object, eye-hand coordination and eye-foot coordination.  Two of the tools we use are paddles and balloons. The students start off using a paddle with their own balloon, trying to keep the balloon up in the air.  We progress to hitting back and forth with a partner, practicing taking turns. The next step is introducing the badminton net, practicing hitting it back and forth over the next.  After we learn how to control our paddle and how to push the balloon over the next, they are introduced to playing with a partner. And finally, we are introduced to the birdie in badminton. Pictured below are some of our first graders practicing serving and returning serves while our 4th-7th graders are stepping it up by playing tournaments.  Along with badminton, our 4th-7th graders are also playing small tournaments in table tennis.

We practiced our jump roping skills this week in gym class.  The students are getting pretty good at running in. If you were to break down the skills that it takes to jump rope, you would be amazed!  You have to work with your partner on turning the rope, making sure you stay together. If your turners are not working together, the jumper will not have a lot of success.  The jumper has to time the rhythm of the rope to set his/her tempo for jumping. Learning how to work with others is a life skill. Jump roping is a great tool to help teach that concept.  So we are not only exercising in gym, we are learning life skills.