I probably look like an actress when I'm up there with the kids at the beginning. But I think if you're enthusiastic and show them that this really can be fun, it gets them enthusiastic. I just try to sell my program and keep it up like a business, with customer service - going back and trying to go back and make sure everything is working well and changing what doesn't work. I do a lot of activities with rhythms and music and that sort of thing just to get them going. They love to move to music.
Third grade is a transition year.
Students can still do movement work or practice sports skills, as they will in fourth and fifth grades. While students practice sports skills, Schutte said they don't get into actual competition or keeping score. She added she wants to give students sports skills they can use for individual activities, or to try out for a sport. Recreation has come a long way. It used to be exclusion and now it's inclusion, everybody plays.