PE K-2

PE Lesson Week 1 Sample HIIT home workout

Hi guys, hope everyone is doing well. I miss seeing you in the gym. During this time at home it’s important to develop an exercise routine. Set aside a time each day to develop that routine. Exercise can be done in many different ways depending on your situation. I will be listing some different workouts along with resources and some video challenges for you to do. You can follow some of my workouts or you can do things as simple as go on a walk or bike ride with your family, play outside or make up a fun game indoors. Use your imagination. My first sample workout is HIIT workout. You can add or change the exercise with some of your favorites. If you get a chance email me a note or a video of some of the things you are doing to workout. I would really like to hear from you.

High Intensity Interval Training

Benefits of HIIT training:Increases heart rate and burns calories in a short period of time. Great for endurance and aerobic capacity

Perform each exercise for 30 seconds, rest for 20 secondsSample Work out #1 has three levels. Bronze Level, Silver Level and Gold Level. You can choose which workout you would like to do that day. Bronze-complete 1x, Silver-complete 2x's, Gold-complete 3x's

Run in place 30 sec Rest 20 sec

Squats 30 sec Rest 20 sec

Pushups 30 sec Rest 20 sec

Crunches 30 sec Rest 20 sec

Grapevine or skip around house 30sec Rest 20 sec

Remember you can check your heart rate on your wrist. Exercise makes our heart beat faster, so check you heart rate before you exercise and after.

PE Lesson Week 2

Hydration-This PE lesson combines some PE and Science. Mrs. Musante would be happy. Your bodies are approx 75% water and it is so important for everyone to keep drinking water throughout the day. We loose so much water each day going to the bathroom, sweating, breathing and other ways that we need to continually replenish the water we loose. Below, I have included an experiment for you to try at home if you can. Give it a try and see the importance of drinking water each day. I have also included a video at the bottom for you to watch on how staying hydrated effect how your brain works. Have fun with it and as always drop me a note when you can through email or google classroom.

Sponge Experiment

Use a dry sponge to show how water can bring physical change. Soak the sponge with water and get your child to explain how it feels – soft, heavy, bouncy, full of life, wet – and explain that only when water is added can it do what it is meant to properly.

Encourage your child to squeeze the water out of the sponge and describe what happens as it loses water – it loses its bounce, feels rough – and doesn’t work properly. Discuss how human bodies lose water too and how that happens – going to the toilet, running around and sweating, getting too hot.

Explain that, just like a sponge, unless we replace the fluid loss by drinking more water, children too can lose their bounce and struggle to do their job of having fun because they will feel tired and flat – just like a dried sponge.

Finally, leave the sponge out somewhere to dry out naturally and get the children to check how it’s form changes and talk about how dry and tough it becomes. Explain that without any outside pressure the sponge will still lose water as it dries out naturally. Tell them this is just the same as the human body, which will still lose water even if children are not running around using it up. (https://doulton.com/teach-children-hydration/ )

Click here to watch a video on the importance of hydration