OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
2009-2010
Wellness Themes
September-"Ready, Set, Exercise" emphasize the importance of warm-up/cool
down
October- "Family Fitness" Healthy steps program
November- "Sportsmanship and Character Education"
December-"Channeling your Energies"-Relaxation & stress management
January-"Healthy Habits" Healthy mind, body and hygiene
February-"Healthy Heart" Hoops/jump rope for heart
March-"Nutrition" Food Journals
April- "No More Couch Potato"- TV turn off night
May-"National Physical Fitness & Sports Month"
June-"Safety" Stanger/danger child abduction
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K-2 Learning how to listen to directions. How to perform the fundamentals
skills (run, walk, jump, hop, skip). Stopping and starting to music, finding
your "own spot", not touching anyone, listening to teacher, staying in the
boundaries.
Kickball and Tee ball
Demonstrate beginner level techniques of catching, throwing, and striking.
Demonstrate beginner level skills in a modified game.
1. Be able to run and kick a stationary playground ball without
stopping prior to the kick.
2. Be able to strike a stationary 6' ball off a tee using a bat using
correct grip and side orientation.
3. Learn how to properly run the 4 bases.
K-Working on throwing and catching a nerf ball standing and moving. Worked
on
throwing and catching with partner. Measured their underhand and overhand
throw with a bean bag.
Grades: 1-2-Working on throwing and catching a nerf ball. Working on
throwing and catching a bean bag while traveling. Underhand throw bean bags
to a partner and then underhand throw to bean bags to score points with the
rings.
All grades love to play the Holiday Tag Game.
K-2: Working on beginner level techniques of catching, throwing, bouncing,
a
ball. Be able to bounce a playground ball with control. Be able to catch
and throw objects of different shapes and sizes. Be able to pass the ball
different ways to a partner. Be able to successfully partiipate in group
games that require simple ball skills.
Played fun games to be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills which better
enable particiaption in group and team activities. (Examples: Variation of
clean up your backyard (using throwing, catching, and shooting at different
heights of basketball goals) Pickpocket, sneak attack, and holiday tag).
These games will help them also recognize boundary lines during group
activities, how to treat others with respect, and how to coorperate with
others.
Students will be able to move to a rhythm.
-Create movement patterns (using body, time, space, and force).
-Be able to move in a line and play circle games to a rhythm. (marching,
YMCA, twist, chicken dance, bunny hop, follow the leader, hokey pokey,
limbo,
macarena, cotton eye joe,and the electric slide.
-Be able to move objects to rhythm (lumni sticks, string, balls, rainbow
ribbons, and beanbags).
Soccer Unit. Students will be able to demonstrate beginner
level techniques of soccer. The students will be able to:
1. Being able to kick a stationary playground ball.
2. Being able to run and kick a stationary playground ball without stopping
prior to the kick.
3. Being able to kick a slow rolling ball.
4. Being able to dribble a ball.
5. Be able to trap, throw-in, and head a playground ball.
Play games such as Sideline soccer and crab soccer
Pin knock down- aiming ot hit objects and learn how to stay on your side
of the gym. Increases hand-eye coordination and throwing skills.
Tag games: tisket a tasket, Don't let the beanbag get you, battleship tag,
northwind/southwind tag, and team tag, toe tag, color tag, dice tag, pin tag, rock, paper, scissors
tag, bridge tag, wiggle tag, high five tag, fitness tag, and pacman.
Group Color tag game-working on chasing, fleeing, running, dodging, and tagging
OPEN HOUSE PICTURE OF GYM (SEE PHOTOS)
Open Gym working at different stations in the gymnasium. (shuffle
board disc, putt putt golf, tennis ball station, tee ball area, hockey,
cargo
net, scooters, climbing bars, balance board, floor hockey, bowling, tunnel,
jump rope, pogo stick, stilts, pogo stick, throwing to pins, throwing
football at target, monkey bars).
Floor hockey- learning how to use a hockey stick while striking at
balls on the ground.
Gymnastics Unit
Learning how to control your body and parts of you body.
1. Learning how to stay balanced in many positions on the floor.
2. Being able to support body weight for climbing, hanging, and
momentarily taking weight on hands.
3. Learning how to roll in many different ways.
Volleyball Unit
Be able to demonstrate beginner level techniques of volleyball
1. Be able to strike a ball repeatedly
2. Learn how to do a two handed set, bump (know where contact is made),
underhand serve, play a modified game.
Play game of Newcombe (ball cannot hit floor)
Safety Program Unit. (throughout the year)
Throughout the year I will be working with Oak Grove students on the Kids and
Company, Together for Safety program, which was developed by the Center for
Missing and Exploited Children. There will be three safety lessons during
the 2009-2010 school year. First lesson will be day before Haloween, Friday,
October 30, 2009. Second lesson will be in January 2010. The third lesson
will be in May 2010. All the students will go to the gym instead of art,
music or physical education. The special area teachers will all meet and
talk to students about safety tips. Students will be taught how to use
safety strategies to reduce the possibility of victimization from abduction
and sexual abuse. If you have any questions or concerns relating to this
program, please call me at the school.
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Abduction Lesson. The three main things to remember to
remain safe:
1. Check first
2. Buddy System
3. No-go tell
DURING MUSIC CLASS STUDENTS WILL BE SINGING SONGS TO REMEMBER THIS 3 RULES.
WE WILL BE SENDING WORKSHEETS HOME FOR THEM TO WORK ON.
Field Days begin June 11, 2010. Schedule posted under Field day and
under the calendar of events.
*this is just an outline of skills the students are learning.