It's PE time - let's warm up our bodies! For the next 5-10 minutes, choose from the following activities to get your heart beating faster, and your muscles stronger.

Run in place; jumping jacks; high knees; butt kicks; sit-ups; push-ups; elbow, hand and side planks; plank jacks; squats; burpees; forward, reverse and side lunges; and stretches

For the past few weeks we have been practicing our basketball skills in the gym. This can be challenging at home if you don't have a basketball hoop and especially difficult to practice at home in the winter months. The following video shows a creative way you could practice some of these skills at home. Try to create your own way to follow along with the video. Don't forget that you could upload pictures of your practice in our "PE gallery" to stay connected with your classmates. Pick a good place to practice so you don't break anything and have fun!

Today, we wanted to give you a game that you can play at home with your friends and family! Most people know the rules of tic tac toe. You, or your team, wants to be the first to fill in 3 in a row either vertically, horizontally or diagonally. We used hula hoops to make our tic tac toe board and bean bags to fill in the squares on the board. Here are a few pictures of our tic tac toe "board" and our bean bags filling in the spots in the different ways you could win...

We used hula hoops for our squares and bean bags to fill in the squares but you could use anything that works! Once you have a "board" setup with 3 items to fill in the squares on the board for each team, you are ready to play. You need to split into 2 teams and have a starting line away from the board. Teammates take turns running from their line and filling in a square (hula hoop or whatever you are using at home) with an item (bean bags, rocks, sticks, whatever you can think of) like a relay race. Watch the following videos for an example!

As you can see in the videos, each team only has 3 bean bags. After the 3rd bean bag is placed, you can move 1 of your teams bean bags from the spot it is in, to a new empty spot. But, be careful! Once you pick up a bean bag from a spot it can't be put back into that same spot during that turn. Also notice how the next teammate in line can not start until their teammate gets back to their line, just like a relay race. The first team to get 3 in a row wins!!

A big thank you goes out to our special guests in the video.

Can you recognize any of these tic tac toe pro's?

Today's PE activities are 3 different yoga videos. We thought yoga would be the perfect activity today because these exercises can be done inside, using little space. Yoga is great for not only the body, but also the mind and heart. See if you can follow along with all three videos!

Sit-ups are a great exercise for your abdominal muscles. Those are the muscles that protect your belly! Notice how Mrs. Kuhl and Mr. Lehman keep their hands away from their legs and the floor and go all the way up and down without cracking their craniums. This is the best way to make those abdominal muscles strong! How many sit-ups can you do?

Just for fun, enjoy our blooper reel and a video of Mr. Lehman sinking a half court shot on the first try! Don't forget you can submit photos or videos of yourself doing the exercises in our "PE Gallery". See you next week!