This week we continued evaluations of our routines and got to try out the Canadian Climber! Ask your child what they got to try on the climber and what part they find to be the most challenging.
It has been a busy two weeks in physical education! We have continued our work in gymnastics, learning about jumps, poses, rolls, different ways to move and safety. Students have been planning their routines and some have even started presenting them for evaluation. In the coming weeks, I will send home the evaluation sheet with a checklist of what your child did well and where they can improve. We were also very fortunate to have Bobby Kriangkum from the Alberta Gymnastics Federation come work with us on Monday. He spoke about his experience in gymnastics, his love for the sport (and others) and how gymnastics contributes to our physical literacy development. He even showed us a backflip!
Hello and welcome back! I hope you all had a restful, fun holiday filled with quality time together, and maybe some active living outside enjoying winter!
Starting this week, and ending February 8, we will be learning about gymnastics. We begin by learning basic skills and safety rules and work our way to low level equipment using benches as balance beams and all the way to the Canadian Climber. Gymnastics can be a challenging unit to teach as there are many safety concerns and it is difficult to keep an eye on all students at once. I appreciate all you do in the home to review safety and excpected behaviors while in the gym and at at school. Students this week learning our 6 main gymnastics rules (which are the same for when playing outdoors on the creative playground or in the field) 1. Défi par décision (challenge by choice) 2. Rester en contrôle (stay in control) 3. Mains et pieds à soi-même (hands and feet to yourself) 4. Silence sur l'equipement (silence when on the equipment) 5. No aerials (NO AERIALS!) 6. De la tête aux pieds, allons-y! Please ask your child to explain some or all of these rules to you (kindergarten and grade one might need extra support). Students also learned how to dress (thank you parents for sending your child in comfy athletic wear and with hair bands to keep the hair back) for gymnastics. Here is a brief overview of the activity skills we worked on: Grades 4 to 6
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