We want to give our students a positive experience with physical activities so that they will continue to be active and maintain their fitness throughout their lives. Along with that, we want to give them knowledge and understanding to make their movement experiences meaningful. We emphasize fitness throughout the year. The health-related fitness components that we emphasize are cardiovascular endurance, upper body muscular strength, abdominal muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. We expose our students to a variety of exercises for each of these components.
Students work on goal setting and personal assessment.
We work on the progressive development of throwing, catching, shooting and striking patterns. To this end, we use different types of balls, such as yarn balls, junior basketballs, soccer balls, volleyball trainers, foam balls, playground balls, rings, hula hoops, scarves and balloons. In general, we do not get to the official games since we emphasize small group activities with lots of equipment. Our intent is to improve our student's skills while keeping activity time high, and often official games do not lend themselves to this. The students participate in gymnastics tumbling and apparatus, rhythms, dance and locomotor activities.