Through self-reflection, which includes dialogue, reading, and writing, students analyze each component of their arts education as well as their own personal growth. Throughout the program, students engage in various forms of communication, utilizing a rich art vocabulary and a variety of technological resources. As part of this process, students make connections between art and other disci-plines, and they explore the various roles the arts play in their communities. Grades 3-5 Upper elementary physical education provides coeducational experiences that are designed to refine the movement patterns of stability, manipulation, locomotion and nonlocomotion. The patterns should be combined and applied in games, lead-up activities, and rhythm and dance movements in individual and group settings.
Ongoing assessment is conducted throughout the curriculum.
These coeducational experiences should encourage socialization, development of positive attitudes, and the integration and reinforcement of a variety of educational concepts. This course fosters participation in games and activities that help students achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of fitness and acquire a basic level of knowledge and skill in cardiorespiratory endurance, body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength and endurance. Ongoing assessment is conducted throughout the curriculum.