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Physical Education (PE) Update ~ Tom Roberts, Freddie Boyle
Students have improved their spatial awareness and cardiovascular endurance by participating in a variety of running activities, practicing different locomotor movements, and playing a variety of chase and pursuit games such as knee tag. Students have exhibited responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others by engaging in a variety of student choice options. In addition, students have been exposed to a variety of physical activities including, cooperative activities, rhythmic activities, and throwing and catching activities which strengthen hand/eye coordination.
Click here to watch Kindergarten students exhibiting responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others by sharing equipment and space with each other while building hula hoop castles.
Please contact the PE teachers with any questions:
Tom Roberts ~ roberts.thomas@slpschools.org
Freddie Boyle ~ boyle.frederick@slpschools.org
Music Update ~ Amanda Bauer
“Sing, Say, Dance, and Play,” are the guiding actions for our music class time together. We are learning music, with as much joy as we can fit into a half hour’s time, including Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's Pursuits of Education.
Kindergartners and First Graders have been focusing on steady beat, learning to move through place and space, using their four different kinds of voices (singing, speaking, whispering, and calling), learning beginner music rhythms with quarter notes and eighth notes, and fun games that practice all of these things.
Second and Third Graders continue to completely dominate rhythm reading. It is pretty much their super power! We have also been composing music on the Orff instruments (xylophones and metallophones), learning dances from other countries, such as “Los Machetes” from Mexico, and expanding our thinking through literature that inspires, highlights and examines racial equity in our world.
Fourth and Fifth Graders have also been exploring how music can create change. We studied the book, “Change Sings” by Amanda Gorman and how music, and we as individuals, can be changemakers in this world. Lately, they have been exploring more independence in the music classroom. They have been bringing their Chromebooks to class, where they can access my website, which gives them access to countless music programs, such a Groove Pizza and Chrome Music Lab, play-alongs, performances, movement pieces, and fun songs with which to sing along. This allows the students more choice in their learning space.
Please feel free to email Amanda Bauer at any time with thoughts or questions, or just to keep in touch at bauer.amanda@slpschools.org
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