PE 12/13 - 12/17

Can you believe it? This is the last week of PE for the calender year. Our next week of PE will take place in the 2011!!!!! We reserve this week to play holiday games and various other favorite games before we head off for the holiday vacation. We will play games of The Grinch and Fitness Dreidels to name a few. I remarked last week about how cold the beginning of the week was and today it is even colder. We do live in Florida right? I wanted to wish everyone happy holidays! I hope you all get some rest and enjoy your time with your friends and family. See you all next year.

12/6 - 12/10

Wow! What a chilly start to our week. We are likely to be outside most of the week so please dress for the weather. It is always better to have to take off a few layers as the day warms up than not be prepared at all. Basketball is the theme for the week. 2nd-4th grades will be playing small-sided and modified basketball games to reinforce the skills taught and practiced last week. Games will include sideline basketball, knockout, P.I.G., around the world and small-sided games. Our K & 1st students will begin our week-long basketball unit. Our young students will learn the differences between bouncing and dribbling as well as shooting and passing. We look forward to the week ahead in physical education.

Welcome back!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. I know I enjoyed my time off with my friends and family. I am including a short video of one of our old favorite Thanksgiving games, "Stuff the Turkey," taken the Thursday prior to vacation, it was a blast. This week our kindergarten and first grade students will jump back into physical education by participating in various perceptual-motor lesson in our Mini-Gym. We will be working on tasks such as balance beams, rebound nets, launching boards, hop-scotch, tossing and catching. Our second through fourth grade students will begin their two-week basketball unit. Fundamentals will be introduced and practiced before small sided games commence.