This was our final week of gymnastics, also known as Mission Impossible! Students used the skills of balancing, hoping, jumping, climbing, and landing that they had developed over the entire unit in this physical test (complete with music and everything!).
Ask your child about their favorite station, or which one gave them the most challenge. Also, did they make it all the way through? 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
This week we had a special visitor, John Leslie (and his best friend Frank) were at Varsity Monday and Tuesday. John is a Paralympian snowboarder that has competed in the past two winter paralympics. He talked and shared with us his love of winter, appreciation for all the support he's received, and how he has something in common with Terry Fox (ask your child!).
Division II students then go to go to COP for two days of skiing. Please see below for some photo highlights from the week. Thanks to all those that sent me a gift, it is much appreciated. I wish you all a happy holiday and a terrific 2019. This week we continued our ski and snowboard theme with a few new activities and partners. Monday we had Elysa in to lead some yoga with the students, talking about strengthening, flexibility and breathing. Tuesday and Wednesday our friends, Coach Jared and Coach Karine from Riders on Board http://ridersonboard.com/ were here with some of their amazing snowboard equipment to help us learn about balance, grabs, bindings, rotations and just how to have fun on the hill. We also had equipment from Alberta Snowboard Association http://www.albertasnowboarding.com/. A big thank you to both of these groups for giving us their time and resources at no cost! Please see photos below for examples of what we were up to!
This week, in partnership with paralympian John Leslie (www.lovingwinter.org) and Scott Bailey from Ever Active schools https://www.everactive.org/ we launched a new training program to help create a love of winter sports and lifestyles and to set our division II students up for success when we go to COP next week.
Here is an overview of the learning we participated in: Grades 3 to 6
We wrapped out throwing and catching unit with the use of some new equipment, thanks to VASCPFS we acquired new nets that will serve us for tennis, badminton, pickle ball and volleyball/newcomb. Students worked through some net games and throwing and catching skills required when playing with a net.
Here are some of the games we played this week: Grades 4 to 6
Thanks to everyone that came by to visit during parent teacher conferences. I have sent home your child's running evaluation that we completed in September and October. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Here is a brief overview of what we did this week: Grades 3 to 6 - Thunderball - Skittle Queen - Bench ball Grades 1 and 2 - Bench ball - Bombardo Kindergarten - Fire and Ice tag with underhand throwing This week we had a special guest, M. Ominikin Ball. This was his first appearance in a few years. Students played a variety of games that worked on throwing and catching skills as well as teamwork and body placement.
Here is a brief overview of the activities and games from this week: Grades 3 to 6 - Indiana Jones - Poison ball - Monster ball - Dance tag and Ball tag - Opposite foot facing target, ball starting low, throwing with elbow out, rotate shoulders Grades 1 and 2 - Indiana Jones - Poison ball - Fire and Ice tag - Dance tag - Athletic stance when catching - Step forward, let go in front of body, eye contact when throwing Kindergarten - Dance tag - Omnikin tag - Indiana Jones |
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