Hello there! I'm Sofía, this year's Physical Education teacher.

In this blog I'm going to be posting some of the things that we are learning and working in class. 

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

In P. E. we have been also working on laterality, this is the two parts of our body (right and left). Sometimes it's a bit confusing, but we are improving! 

In addition, to discover our dominant side, we are practising and bouncing the ball like in basketball. This will undoubtedly help us to improve the use of our non-dominant side.

The second trimester has started, and we're learning about something really important such as rhythm and temporal perception.

In order to do so, we have been playing with different materials passing them slowly and fast, copying rhythms and even dancing in class. Here you can see some pictures of our boys and girls having fun in P.E. classes:

Another physical ability that we are working on in class is coordination, focusing mainly on general dynamic coordination, hand-eye coordination and foot-eye coordination.

Here you can see them playing and working on the development of this very important physical ability:

Another relevant skill that we were working on was Balance. It's fun playing at the same time that we're improving our static and dynamic balance. We use ropes, benches, the lines on the floor.. we are very creative and imaginative with the equipment!

Here you can see how we improved our balance in class while we have a great time!

this year, to commemorate St. Patrick's Day, we've learned how to play a typical Irish sport: Gaelic Football. We really have fun learning the basic rules of the sport and playing some matches. 

Thank you so much Garreth for your patience and dedication during this week, it's been a wonderful experience!

🇮🇪 If you wan to know more about GAELIC FOOTBALL, here you have a video to learn about it! 🇮🇪

Later, we've working on jumping and spining and they've do so in very different ways: skipping rope, doing somersaults, spining on mats, jumping forwards, backwards, laterally, different heights... And in fact, they have improved a lot!

it's been challenging and fun!

After that, during the month of april, we've been working on throwing and catching different kinds of balls, focusing on aiming and correctly receiving the balls thrown by our friends following the teacher's instructions.

DATCHBALL is an alternative sport created in Aragón in 2005 by P.E. teacher Roberto NAvarro. It's an adaptation of what we know as dodgeball or balón prisionero.

Here you have a video in which you can see the main rules and signs of identity of this sport:

Kids have had a great time learning how to play to this sport and they seem to love playing it!

We've also working on something as relevant as healthy food and the importance of distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy food. To do so, they were racing and moving their body at the same time that they were making a salad or classifying different foods as healthy or unhealthy.