P.E. @ Home
Note to Parents:
You should have received this info with the homework you picked up from school. Save this email so you can easily click through the links of fun activities! Please know that this is all meant to support you and help you motivate your child to stay active. While I strongly encourage this for your child's physical and emotional well-being, there is no pressure to complete it. These are resources for you, not one more thing that has to be done during this stressful time.
Hello Bobcats!
I miss seeing each of you will really miss teaching you in PE for the next few weeks. The good news is you already have the skills and knowledge you need to be active and stay healthy at home!
Your P.E. Homework is Simple and Fun:
1 - Choose and do activities you like
. You learned lots of ways to move in PE already, and I’ll give you even more fun ideas!
2- Use the
Physical Activity Log
in your homework packet, to write each activity you do and how many minutes you did it.
3- Your Goal is 60 Minutes
each day. It doesn’t have to be done all at once. You can add it all up in your log.
4-
Take
Activity Breaks
during your schoolwork. This helps you focus, relax and stay healthy. If you get tired or frustrated, that’s a great time to take a break and move!
5- Have fun!
Try a variety of activities and invite your family members to join you!
I hope you use all that we’ve already learned this year to enjoy being active each day. If the weather is nice, try to get outside lots too! You can play in the yard, or ask an adult to take you for a walk, run, hike, or bike ride.
I sent
another email
during Spring Break with lots of fun exercise games you can play at home. In this letter, I will share more ideas, links to videos and more. I will keep sharing new activities via email and on our private Facebook page, ‘Bookcliff Christian Families’.
There are tons of ways to stay active at home! Pick your favorites and remember to record them on your
Physical Activity Log.
I hope to hear from you lots during this time away from school. Here are all the ways you reach me to ask questions, share your ideas, and send me photos and videos of what you’re up to.
I love you guys! I will miss exercising together, but I can’t wait to see what you do at home with your families. Keep your
paws-itve attitudes
! Be kind, be respectful, and always do your best! I am still here for you, just in new ways. I will be praying for you and your families, and I know that God’s light will shine brightly through each of you during this time.
With lots of love and prayers,
Mrs. Elliott
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You've Got Skills
If you have any of the equipment below (ball, jump rope, balloon etc), you can practice many of the skills we’ve learned in PE this year:
- Striking a Balloon (awesome activity for PreK-2nd Grade)
- Blow up a balloon and practice striking it with different items in your house (or different body parts) What’s your record for the most number of hits without moving your feet?
- 2nd-5th can practice volleying skills to self, over a line or rope and through a hole like a hula hoop.
- Here’s an example of this balloon striking activity
- Juggling: Use scarves, napkins or plastic grocery bags to practice the tossing and catching routines and juggling we learned in class.
- Ice-skating: Use paper plates to skate around your carpet. Do exercises on the plates (carefully!): squat, lunge, pushup, sit-up, etc.
- Jumping & Hopping: Find something like our spot markers (stuffed animal or t-shirt, or tape a square or lines on the floor) to do the jumping routines we learned in class (t-jumps, box jumps, sky jumps, etc. Do them all again with hops).
- Exercise Routine: Use the exercises we learned in class to make your own routine or circuits: push-ups, planks, squats, lunges, curl-ups, stretches, crab dips, deadbug, wounded bobcat, down dog, tree pose, etc.
- Locomotor Moves: You all know 8 movements: walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping, side-stepping, and leaping. Do them in low, medium and high spaces. Do them in straight, curved, and zig-zag pathways, and do them at slow, medium and fast paces.
- More Moves: Move like animals: bear crawls, crab walks, snake slithers, frog jumps, etc. Make your own!
- Dance Party! Enough said :)
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Kids Exercise Videos Galore
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Parents please note that I’ve done my best to filter out videos with songs that may not be appropriate for our students, however, because of the vast layers of links, it is impossible for me to catch them all, please be sure to screen them yourself. Thank you!
No Internet?
Spectrum is offering 60 days of free internet to families who do not have access during the coronavirus pandemic: (
info here
)
To enroll in the program, call 1-844-488-8395
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Free Circuit Workouts
These are 1 page each, easy to print and follow.
I like that these include "Levels". Our Bobcats have been taught to choose a level that’s doable for them and to work towards leveling up (like a video game) to challenge themselves and get stronger.
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Review Games Shared Over Spring Break
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