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Hello EES! Welcome to the Mrs. Gauley's Physical Education website. Please try to build in some type of physical activity everyday (60 minutes a day is the goal). You can do 60 minutes or more at one time or break it up into 20 minute increments. Below are various resources to help guide your physical activity: daily fitness and skill maintenance activities (updated every week) in addition to unique resources for physical activities and an activity log. Also check out videos of Mrs. Gauley doing her part to stay active (walking, hiking, running, bike-riding, dancing, jump roping, wall ball) and pictures/videos sent by EES students last spring!
Here is the weekly plan for physical education:
Familiarize yourself with general guidelines for physical activity below.
Have your child do the daily Fitness Activity - Daily Fitness Activity
Check out Skill Review to help maintain your child's motor skills - Skill Review
Recorded fitness and skills lesson - Fitness and Skills Recorded Lesson
Look at Unique Games and Resources for physical activity ideas - Unique Games and Resources
Keep track of your child's activity with the 2-week physical activity log. Submit logs to Mrs. Gauley every 2 weeks beginning on 9/28 via email gauleyd@nausetschools.org - Activity Log
Check out my own pics/videos of what I'm doing everyday to stay active (updated daily) - Pics/videos of Mrs. G. meeting her 60 min/day (or 10,000 steps) physical activity requirement!
Check out pictures and videos of EES students being active during remote learning last spring - EES pictures and videos submitted by students
If you have any questions, concerns or would like to upload videos of your child being active (or Fitbit steps!), please send to my email: gauleyd@nausetschools.org; I will be available during school hours Monday-Friday.
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General guidelines for physical activity at home:
1. Success is a great motivator. Regardless of the activity, start with activities your youngster can perform.
2. Novelty also motivates children. Change activities often and use different pieces of equipment.
3. Do activity in short spurts. Children quickly become fatigued and bored. Stop before both you (parents) and your child become frustrated.
4. Reinforce effort and trying. Pushing for a successful performance will result in frustration. If a youngster fails at an activity several times, move to a different activity and come back to it later.
5. Perform activities outdoors when the weather allows. Aerobic activity is best suited to outdoor areas.
6. As a parent, be positive and share the enjoyment of watching or taking part in your child’s play. Children learn through movement and the social interactions related to movement.
Author, DynamicPEASAP.comProfessor Emeritus, Arizona State University
Specific physical activity guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Preschool-Aged Children
Preschool-aged children (ages 3 through 5 years) should be physically active throughout the day to enhance growth and development.
Adult caregivers of preschool-aged children should encourage active play that includes a variety of activity types.
Children and Adolescents
It is important to provide young people opportunities and encouragement to participate in physical activities that are appropriate for their age, that are enjoyable, and that offer variety.
Children and adolescents ages 6 through 17 years should do 60 minutes (1 hour) or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily:
Aerobic: Most of the 60 minutes or more per day should be either moderate- or vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity and should include vigorous-intensity physical activity on at least 3 days a week.
Muscle-strengthening: As part of their 60 minutes or more of daily physical activity, children and adolescents should include muscle-strengthening physical activity on at least 3 days a week.
Bone-strengthening: As part of their 60 minutes or more of daily physical activity, children and adolescents should include bone-strengthening physical activity on at least 3 days a week.
Also, if you have the means to measure steps (Fitbit, Apple watch, etc), try to get 10,000 steps daily!