Physical Education 

K-5 Curriculum Objectives

The fundamental objective of the physical education program is to provide opportunities for the development of motor skills and physical fitness. 

Skill Themes, Health, and Fitness Concepts:

Students in grades k-5 will experience a developmentally appropriate program of skill themes, health concepts, and fitness development. We will be playing educational games, dance, skills-based learning, and gymnastics. The following motor skills, fitness and health concepts are included: 

• Body Awareness

• Balancing

• Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging

• Foot Passing, Trapping, Kicking, and Punting

• Striking with Implements (Short and Long handled)

• Rolling

• Throwing and Catching

• Traveling

• Volleying and Dribbling

• Transferring Weight

• Jumping and Landing

• Cardiorespiratory Endurance

• Flexibility

• Muscular Fitness and Endurance

• Locomotor and Non-Locomotor Skills

• Heart Health

• Body Composition

• Bone Health

• Fitness Testing

Becoming physically educated is a developmental process that begins in early childhood and continues throughout life. Our physical education program involves the total child and includes physical, social, mental, and emotional growth experiences. The physical education program provides instruction that will enable the pursuit of strengthening health, as well as a lifetime of physical activity. 

Ida Nason Aronica Health and Fitness