Anyone want some fruit salad?

We changed up our Fitness Friday this past week because of our short week but wanted to get our bodies moving and grooving so we played a game of Fruit Salad. Students were split up into their teams. 1 team would be guarding the fruit salad while the other teams were trying to steal their fruit! If you got tagged you needed to go back to your teams fruit bowl and high five your next team mate and they would try to grab the fruit. Very fun game for all and it worked on strategy as well!

1st Grade protecting their fruit.

All smiles :)

Cheering on their team.

Guarding the fruit salad.

2nd grade grabbing the fruit for a safe delivery.

Fitness Friday Brain Break

The kick off our winter vacation, we did a holiday themed brain break. The students were moving and grooving and by the end of class, they were sweating up a storm! Below are a few video clips of the fun we were having in P.E. 

Hope everyone had a Happy Holidays and heres to the New Year!

Winter Wonderland

On Wednesday and Thursday the students were in a Winter Wonderland during Physical Education class. We had 6 different stations that were winter/holiday themed. The students enjoyed going through Candy Cane Lane and Ice Skating the best!

The Holidays are here!

This week during P.E your child will be doing a variety of fun activities the involve holiday themes. It is a fun way to incorporate all the different activites that we have as well as burn off some energy before we head into winter break. Yesterday during P.E we played Reindeer Tag and today we Decorated our Holiday Wall. 

Here are the different ways we moved our bodies for the relays-

Candy Cane Run- run down to cone and back

Snowman Crawl- bear crawl to cone and back

Jumping Jingle- jump down to cone and back

Toy Soliders- with team, slide to cone and back

Stocking Scooters- move on scooter to cone and back

In order to get an ornament your team needed to finish 5 different relays. When you team was done they would then get to choose an ornament to decorate or stockings, stars, candy canes, and snowmen to put on our holiday wall. The students had a fun time working together and also riding on scooters, I mean who doesn't love scooters ;)

Snowman crawl down and around cone and high five your next teammate.

2nd Grade Toy Soliders

2nd Grade Toy Soliders

Candy Cane Run

Our finished product from 10 classes today, very abstract but I love it!

12 Days of Fitness

Short video of one of the 1st grade classes doing 

The 12 Days of Fitness!

Have a great weekend :)

Jail Ball

Two teams with 4-5 members in jail on each team. The only way to get out of jail was to have someone throw to the jailer, they would have to catch the ball and then throw it back to the person who threw it to them. If either person dropped the ball they would have to start over! Here are a few snapshots of the organized chaos ;)

Moving so fast to catch the ball it got blurry!

1st grade playing Jail Ball

Trying to get their jailers out of jail.

Almost had that one!

Follow the Leader

This semester we started a new warm-up that lets the students be the leader of the class. After we finish our normal warm-up of jogging, galloping, skipping, and sliding, the students all find a blue X and stand on it. I pick one leader on Monday and Wednesday to lead the class in 3 streches/exercises of their choice. Not only does it give the students ownership of their class, it also is fun to be in charge! 

Below is one of the 2nd grade classes doing their exercises for the day.