Fitness

Weekly PE Module: Fitness

Watch the video below as Mrs. Ash from Hartley Elementary leads you through several activities to get your body moving.


Additional information about the activities, including materials needed, can be found below.

Warm Up

Follow along with Mrs. Ash and her kids in the video linked above as they lead you through this warm up.


  • Jumping-jacks

  • Jog in place

  • Cross crawl in front 8 times

  • Cross crawl in back 8 times

  • Sit and stretch

  • Push-ups

  • Sit-ups

Skill Focus: Fitness

Materials needed

  • None

This or That

  • Respond to the question on the screen and move to the side of the room that matches your answer.

  • When the timer starts, you will do the exercise that goes with your answer.

  • After 30 seconds, you will answer another question and repeat the steps listed above.

Cool Down


Cool down from your work out by stretching or practicing some deep breathing exercises.

Bonus Activities

Pick from 3 or more of the activities below for more ways to be safely active this week!

Your goal should be to get 60 minutes a day of exercise safely under the social distancing directives.

Dance

Dance with Your Favorite Characters


Select a dance video below and follow the directions to learn some new dance moves from some of your favorite characters from TV, movies, and sports.

Family Engagement

Obstacle Course



Create your own obstacle course. See an example of a home obstacle course created by Ms. Sylvester from Kooser Elementary.
Customize your own home obstacle course. Here are some more ideas of activities and challenges to include in your course.
Looking for even more ideas for your obstacle course?
Check out this collection of videos from Mr. Johnson from Cavett Elementary as he teaches you how to do a variety of different skills.

Fitness

Indoor Workouts

Watch the video below as Mr. Reiners, the PE teacher from Meadow Lane Elementary leads you through a burst workout.
  • 4 minutes: Do this for a total of 4 minutes switching back and forth.
    • 30 Seconds of marching
    • 30 Seconds of jumping jacks
  • 1 minute: Knee or full push-ups
  • 1 minute: Air Squats
  • 1 minute: Crunches with feet in air
  • 1 minute: Elbow or push-up planks
  • 1 minute: Hamstring stretching and deep breathing

This can be repeated for as many sets as you want.
Looking for a fun way to work out and practice your math skills? Try spinner fitness! This is a fitness activity that allows students to utilize their adding and multiplication skills. Watch the video below, as Ms. Nutt the PE teacher from Randolph Elementary shows you how to complete this activity.

Skills

Cup Stacking


Cup stacking is a fitness based sport kids from all backgrounds and abilities can do. Students are working out both sides of their brains and their hand-eye coordination. There are a ton of different cup stacking activities available. Below you can find videos to teach you how to stack. Once you get a hang of how to stack, try out the level 1 challenge videos.

Learn to Stack


At Home Stacking Level 1 Challenges

Mindfulness and Relaxation

Mindfulness with JusTme

Follow along with JusTme as he leads you through different mindfulness activities in the videos below.

Movement Patterns

Jumping


Try to master all these jumping patterns in the driveway, backyard, park or wherever else there’s safe room & you can practice social distance.
Looking for more ways to practice your jumping skills? Follow along with Mr. Keitges from West Lincoln Elementary as he leads you through a series of jumping activities that you can safely do inside.

Adaptive PE

Adaptive Physical Education (APE) is an adapted, or modified, physical education program designed to meet the individualized gross motor needs, or other disability-related challenges, of an identified student.

Fit 5 Activities: Flexibility

Fit 5 resources are designed by The Special Olympics to be utilized with flexibility, giving Programs the opportunity to integrate and implement the resources in a way that aligns with their current goals and objectives.

This week we are going to focus on flexibility. There are five levels for flexibility, focus on the level that is where you are at for your current goals and objectives.