This Week in Physical Education
This week in phy. ed. class students will be either playing floor hockey or activities aimed at developing floor hockey skills.
Physical Education Syllabus
By: Chris Louwagie
The goal of physical education class is to keep the students physically active. The students will be introduced to and involved in a variety of activities and games to promote healthy lifestyles and good sportsmanship. The end result is students will choose ways of staying active to maintain good health.
Grades 3-6
Outdoor games unit: A variety of backyard games that can be played throughout life including: bean bag, bocce ball, croquet, horseshoes, ladder golf, & speedmitton.
Frisbee Unit: Throwing and catching techniques, games of Frisbee golf and Ultimate Frisbee.
Fitness Testing: this will be done at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year. 4-6th 1mile run, pullups, situps, pushups, standing long jump, high jump, and 1 min. jump rope.
Soccer unit: activities to develop skills passing, dribbling, teamwork and games.
Football unit: activities to develop throwing, catching, and kicking skills, ultimate football and flag football games.
Fleeing or tag games unit: capture the flag, pirates cove, touchdown, sharks & seaweed, dogcatchers, snake tag, freeze tag, and other tag games.
Volleyball unit: skills: passing, serving, and setting, games: newcom, volleyball game.
Walking Unit: a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association, students raise money for the ADA and we spend the week walking during class for the week. Builds endurance
Basketball unit: skill activities (dribbling, ball handling, passing, shooting, layups) games: 3 on 3, around the world, HORSE, lightning, dribble knockout, 5 on 5, and sideline basketball.
Kickball unit: skills: passing, catching, and running, games: run like crazy, mat ball, atomic kickball.
Floor hockey: puck and stick handling skills activities, games.
Scooter unit: relays, team work games, games on scooters, hockey, soccer, basketball.
Broomball unit: skills: passing, stick handling, and teamwork.
Bowling unit: skills: scoring and bowling motion, games: bowling, body bowling, bowling for junk
Jump rope unit: single ropes – different forms and tricks, team ropes, chinese jump rope.
Daytona 500: scooters and mats to make cars.
Swimming lessons: builds endurance, safety awareness around water
Dodgeball unit: skills: throwing, catching and dodgingPatriot ball, trench, ultimate dodgeball, dodgeball.
Parachute: builds arm and upper body muscles,games to go with parachute.
Aerobic workouts: workouts to build endurance and strength
Hackey Sack: hand, eye, and feet coordination, a game enjoyed by many age levels and played almost anywhere.
Softball: throwing, catching and hitting activities, games.
K-2
Fleeing & Tag games: to develop an awareness of rules, coordination and body control, builds strength and endurance.
Fitness Testing: to understand your own physical fitness and way to improve weaknesses.
Stretching & Exercises: to develop the importance of how to stretch and warmup to prevent muscle strains and pulls
Jump ropes: builds cardiovascular endurance, develops core muscles.
Scooters: develops leg and arm muscles, body coordination.
Relays: coordination through different forms of races, develop teamwork.
Parachute: listening skills, working together as one team, builds arm muscles.
Yarnballs: to throwing, catching & fleeing skills used in a variety of games: clean your room, snowball fight, etc. easy to handle throw and catch.
Softball / T-ball: throwing, catching and hitting activities, games.
Daytona 500: scooters and mats to make cars.
Kickball unit: skills: passing, catching, and running, games: run like crazy, mat ball, atomic kickball.
Soccer unit: activities to develop skills passing, dribbling, teamwork and games.
