Physical Education

 

   Wow!  What a fantastic start to the 2009-2010 school year!   Students began with team building activities.  These activities included:  buddy walkers, parachute, Dino Egg to the Lab, Crossing the Ocean, and Nuclear Waste.  Fall Field Sports have been our focus in recent weeks. Students started with a soccer unit and now our focus is football.  Our fall sports will continue with lacrosse.  

   Early Childhood - Unity of Inquiry involved chang e and growth.  The EC students performed a fitness skill checklist.  In March they will do the same checklist and we will see their change and personal growth.

P1 - We discussed the significance of food and sport activities.  Listing foods that we see at different sporting events and their role in experiencing a specific sporting venue was a focus inquiry. We discussed the importance of food or snack at their own games.

   P2 - Plants and the importance of their parts were their focus.  We used our bodies and represented the different parts of a plant. Discussion of the specific jobs of each plant part was an important focus.

   E1 - Invertebrates were the focus of their Unit of Inquiry.  Fall weather interrupted their fly fishing experience.  Hopefully, this spring we will be able to revisit this experience.

   E2 - Heroes was the Unit of Inquiry.  Students picked a sports figure and researched that individual.  They then decided if they thought that sports figure was a hero or he/she did not qualify as a hero.  Students gave their presentations during P.E. and answered questions about their sport figure.  It was interesting to hear each s tudents perspective of a hero.  Open-minded was our IB profile that we focused on during the presentations.

MY1 - Field Sports Unit focuses on the Area of Interaction of Community and Service.  Students explore their responsibility of their sport community.  The IB profiles are used to reflect on their own personal role with their teams.

   MY2 - Field Sports Unit focuses on the Area of Interaction of Health and Social.  Students reflected on their own health benefits of playing and participating in soccer, football, and lacrosse.  The IB profiles were the heart our reflection.