Kindergarten PE Units

• • • • Students will be able to: Understand movement concepts, such as spatial awareness, helps improve performance and supports wellness. Understanding fitness concepts and skills and integrating them into everyday routines supports wellness.

      • Participate in movement skills such as running, walking, jumping, hopping, skipping, leaping, galloping. 

      • Demonstrate spatial awareness skills, listening skills, and safety awareness skills while participating in both individual and group games and activities. 

• Students will be able to Understand health and skill-related fitness concepts and skills to develop and maintain a healthy, active lifestyle.

• Using low organized games to build sportsmanship, throwing & catching, and staying healthy.

• Demonstrate good listening skills and safety awareness skills while participating in both individual and group games and activities.

• Demonstrate basic play skills such as following commands, tagging lightly during tag games, and simple catching and throwing games. 

• Understanding different ways to move, incorporating them into everyday life, and learning about how to be creative.

• Students will be able to understand that performing movement skills in a technically correct manner improves overall performance and increases the likelihood of participation in lifelong physical activity. 

• Demonstrate change in movement when there is a change in either tempo, beat, rhythm, or musical style.

• Respond to music in terms of movement when there is a change in tempo, beat, rhythm, or musical style

• Understanding that performing movement skills in a technically correct manner improves overall performance and increases the likelihood of participation in lifelong physical activity

• What are different ways we can use a ball in physical activity?

• Understand ball handling skills such as kicking, catching, throwing, striking, rolling, and bouncing a ball.

• Demonstrate ball handling skills such as kicking, catching, throwing, striking, rolling, and bouncing a bal

• Games/ Activities:

-Kicking: stationary and moving ball 

-Catching: self-thrown and tossed ball 

-Throwing: overhand, underhand, and at a target 

-Striking stationary objects 

-Bouncing: one hand, two hand, stationary, with a partner, and by themselves 

-Rolling: one hand, two hands, stationary, at a target,  with a partner, and by themselves

• To be able to successfully accomplish a goal either individually or in a team setting.

• Understanding that performing movement skills in a technically correct manner improves overall performance and increases the likelihood of participation in lifelong physical activity. 

• Participate in activities using various manipulatives and motor skills patterns. 

• Games/ Activities:

• Obstacle Course

-Ninja Warrior

-Jump Rope: rope, lines, half and full swing

-Hula Hoop Games

-Bean Bag Games

-Bowling Pin Games

-Rock Wall