BONES, BONES, BONES

Today for Fitness Friday we found where our lower body bones are located, the names of our bones and how we can keep our bones healthy. The students decided to keep our bones healthy we need to exercise or stay active, eat healthy and wear a helmet when we ride our bikes or scooters. 

We located our-

Ribs

Hips

Femur

Tibia

Fibula

Phalanges-fingers and toes

See if your child can recite the "Bone Bounce" with all of the bones!

Putting together the skeleton puzzle and trying to name bones at the same time!

Resistance Band fun! Making our bones STRONG AND HEALTHY.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

This week for Halloween Ms. Earney and I decorated the gym with fun Halloween Stations for the kiddos to explore. We had 6 stations that the students would go to with spiders, spooky words, potions, creatures and so much more! The students loved the lights, fog machine, strobe light, balloons, spiders that we had waiting for them and I'm pretty sure they wanted to do the stations again today! 

~STATIONS~

 #1- Spider Swamp

#2- Pumpkin Bowling

#3- Scary Word Toss

#4- Haunted House

#5- Witches Brew

#6- Creature Bump

Creature Bump-Don't let your creature hit the ground.

Haunted House

Scary Word Toss- Find your letters on the pumpkin wall and spell your word!

Moving through the haunted house on their scooters.

Spider Swamp- Forward roll out of the swamp.

Don't fall into the swamp!

Witches Brew- Putting their potions into the brew!

BEWARE!

Spider Swamp

SPOOKY!- Haunted House

Leaping Lizards!

Here are a few snapshots of the students leaping during our leaping obstacle course. They really focused on pushing off our toes, legs should be splitting in flight (scissors kick) and landing on our opposite foot.

Marvelous Monday

Hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable MEA break, the students seemed very excited to be back today as we are finishing up our jumping, hopping and leaping unit. Today I assessed the students on hopping and leaping and they did a great job!

The next unit we will be covering will be skipping, galloping and sliding. Most students are able to perform these locomotor movements without much help. What we are looking for though are students that may struggle a bit or need a little bit more practice, that way the locomotor movement can be automatic when transitioning to Oakcrest. It's crazy how one day a student just can't seem to get skipping and the next day they have it! 

Jumping, Hopping and Leaping Unit

Our unit for the next two weeks is jumping, hopping and leaping. We have been talking about the cues we need to use to help us bend our knees, swing our arms and explode off our toes and they sound like this, "lock, load, and explode!" 

Below you will see students Jumpersise. Students would jump or hop a set number of times over or on their poly spot, after they have finished they would go to the station that matched their poly spot color and do the exercise shown. After the student had finished the exercise they would then find a different color poly spot and continue jumping/hopping.

All School Morning Meeting

This morning the Homecoming court came to visit! Here are a few snap shots of our students doing the morning "Roll Call."

Mrs. Vycital's Class

Ms. Cariveau's Class

Mr. Gaikowski's Class

Crazy Colors

Kindergarten has been working on their fitness as well this week. On Thursday we were increasing our cardiovascular fitness by playing Crazy Colors! Cones were spread around the general space and underneath each cone was a color. The student would flip cone over, look at color, say it out loud and then proceed to that color of cone. By the time we were finished the students were huffing and puffing!