In class, we have three big rules in place for all grades.
Respect others.
To respect others in our classroom means we are kind to one another. It means we listen when others are talking. It means we keep our hands and feet to ourselves.
Respect Yourself
Respecting oneself in PE means trying your best in everything that you do and when you make mistakes you make the choice to learn from those mistakes. On top of this part of respecting yourself is making sure you are ready for class by wearing the proper footwear to participate in all classroom activities.
Respect Equipment
Respecting our equipment means using things as they are meant to be used and we do our best to clean up after ourselves and keep our space clean.
Class Structure
2-6: Two 50 Min Classes (100 Min Total)
Warm Up (5 Min)
Running (5 Min)
Water Break (5 Min)
Lesson/Activity (25 Min)
Bonus Game (5 Min) (Time Pending)
Cool Down (5 Min)
Our class tracker is a system used to communicate between the students and their classroom teachers on how things went in our PE class. The way the system works is the class receives a score, on the class tracker, for each portion of the period. The scoring works as follows;
1- Not meeting expectations, continually breaking 3 big classroom rules, etc.
2- Meeting some expectations, rules being broken by some, etc.
3- Meeting most or all expectations, listening well, respecting others, etc.
4- Above and beyond.
N/A- did not grade this section or did not get to it.
The class tracker works as both a goal system for each class to work towards as well as to help classes stay accountable to their classroom teachers.
Warm Up
Our warm up is broken up into two sections; exercises and stretches. Each section is student lead. The number and color combinations correspond with students' home base spots. If their number is on the board it is their turn to lead that exercise or stretch.
At the end of 45-minute periods, we complete a 5-minute cool down. This cool down serves two purposes. First, to make sure our bodies have time to cool down. Second, to gradually get students ready to re-enter their grade-level classrooms.
This is a sample layout of how our home base spots look. At the start of each quarter, students are assigned a home base spot. They are divided up into five color rows with six numbers in each. They can find their spots by lining themselves up with indicators on the wall as shown here.
Each month we have one student, K-6, selected as the PE Student of the Month. This student is selected by a random drawing, at the end of each month, from the can shown here. Students can have their names entered into the drawing by displaying exemplary behavior in class. At the end of the month, one name is drawn from the can and that student becomes the PE Student of the Month.