K-2 P.E. Vocabulary

Accuracy: hitting a target

Balance: being able to keep the body in a steady position

Boundaries: The imaginary line that determines the space you are allowed to work in (cones, or tape or line on the floor)

Catch: receiving and holding onto an object with hands, feet or other implements

Chasing: going after something or someone

Cooperation: working together

Distance: how far an object/person goes

Dodging: changing directions so that you don’t bump into objects or people

Dribble: your hands or feet are using small hits to move an object down/across an area

Endurance: how “long” you keep moving

Fleeing: moving away from something or someone

General space: the space that everyone shares

Heart Rate: how fast or slow your heart beats

Kick: using your feet to move a ball or object

Locomotor skills: Locomotor skills move us from one place to another. (hop, skip, run, jog, walk, gallop). (SPARK ,K-2 vii)

Movement concepts: levels, pathways, tempo, directions, relationships

(relationships: over, under, around, thru, on, off, in, around…)

Muscles: pumps blood and makes your body move

Non-locomotor: Skills performed without moving from space to space, bending, stretching, pushing, pulling, twisting, raising, sinking, etc.

(SPARK, K-2 vi)

Partners: two students working together

Personal space: the space you are standing in and can reach to without moving your feet, such as bubble/helicopter

Physical changes: how your body changes when you are moving (sweat, breathing fast, heart rate)

Play 60: play for 60 minutes, (You can play 3 times for 20 minute increments or 2 times for 30 min increments or other combinations of times)

Respect: how you treat others and equipment

Strength: how much you can lift or do

Striking: using your hands, feet or other implements to hit an object and make it move

Throw: using your arm and hands to move an object