September 12th, 2025

In PE- 

BCE students' first week of PE consisted of teamwork, sportsmanship, and trying our best! These three pillars are the framework of BCE PE. Students warmed up each day with our “4 Corner Warm Up”, which includes different movements/exercises each day. The goal of this activity is to educate students on proper form and introduce a diverse range of dynamic movements that can help them stay active and fit now and in the future. 1st-5th graders played a team challenge game called Hula Hut Relays, another called Dot on Head, and one more called Human Knot, where they worked together to literally pull themselves out of a human knot! A fan favorite was a game called Crazy Cone Challenge; if you have ever tried to flip your water bottle and stick it, you would love this game! In addition, students raced in Team Relays and ended the week with an invasion game called Capture the Donut.

Our kinders traveled a lot! We worked hard on locomotor movements, also known as traveling movements, such as walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping, and leaping. I was very impressed with their skipping ability, which can be rather tricky! These kiddos enjoyed games such as Hula Hoop Twister, Locomotor Magic Tag, and Helicopters.

SPRING Fastest Class

In PE- Students worked on striking with a paddle/racquet these past two weeks. 2nd-5th graders practiced a lot of underhand serving, because in Badminton, serves are only permitted below the rib cage. Many students served forehand and some backhand, but all were rocking those birdies! We played a game called patterns, survivor, 4 square and finished the week with doubles play. In K-1st, students worked on their underhand serves as well. They played lots of games with skill work and some of their favorites were money maker, pop it, birdies in a nest and lollipop paddle battle! K & 1st even experimented with birdies on the last day and were highly successful in making those birdies fly!  

Did you know?  Badminton is one of the most popular sports in the world, with an estimated 339 million people playing it. According to ESPN.com, badminton is second to soccer in participation worldwide. In particular, Badminton has a huge popularity in Asia, where seven of the ten most badminton-playing countries are. It officially became an Olympic sport in 1992 at the Barcelona games.

Students practiced skills early on in the week during our hockey stations. They then used those skills in games like The very hungry caterpillar, pirate hockey, pin knockdown, 4 goal hockey and ended the week with a round robin tournament. All students helped us finish up our Hockey unit with a visit from the Avalanche Youth Development group. They provided students with instruction and lots of fun! In addition, they donated hockey sticks, balls and pop up goals. GO AVS!