1st blog

Welcome to my class.  Since this is a new thing that, we will start off by making these blogs about what my classes are doing in the P.E.  You can check up on your child[ren] and see what skills they are performing/acquiring, their social interaction, and of course how much fun they are having.

My intermediate (3rd-5th) classes are in their soccer and football unit and my primary classes are involved in a muscular strength and endurance unit.  Yes you saw that right, my intermediate classes are doing both soccer and football unit at the same time.  Call me crazy, but with 36 students in each of my 5th grade classes, it just sounded manageable to me (and with equipment - I don't have the money to continue to buy ... I have to use the money wisely and purchase things that I need and buying more flags as oppose to playground balls ... yeah playground balls won out).  So one class is doing football while the other is doing soccer and the next time they come, they switch units.  It's actually working out pretty well and with the assistant that I have, it is running smoothly.  The classes get more of out; they get to practice more on the skill at hand as oppose to having all 72 students practicing - that's a lot more students plus less equipment equals a lot of wait time.

My primary (K-2nd) classes just finished their leg portion (Crab Soccer) of muscular strength and endurance and now we are working on arm strength and endurance with Parachute Games.  Sharks and Lifeguards and Cat and Mouse are the 2 games we are focusing on this week.  Below is Sharks and Lifeguards in which some students were chosen to be sharks and they are underneath the parachute.  They are suppose to crawl underneath the chute and grab students legs and pull them under.  The swimmers (students being pulled under) are suppose to yell "lifeguard" and the lifeguards are suppose to run to their rescue and pull them out.  The students are loving, especially if it's their first time playing the game.