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Weather is looking to be beautiful this week. So I am challenging you with a 2 week challenge. GET OUTSIDE AND WALK. For those of you that have a fit bit or your parents have a smart phone, tracking your steps will be easier with a fitbit app or with a nike running app. If you do not have that, have your parents drive around the block and measure that distance in their car to give you a guesstimate. An average person will walk around 2400 steps in one mile. The goal for being in a healthy range is to walk 10,000 steps in a day. Your physical education teachers have been averaging around 23,000 on any given school day during this school year! Here is your chance to track your movement and set a goal to surpass your step count from week 1 in week 2. Good luck and I included an activity converter that will help you figure out step counts for other activities based on how many minutes you performed that task.
2 Week Step Log Challenge.pdfConverting activities to steps.pdfAgility is the ability to start and stop quickly and change directions. Being agile can help you in any sport to be more adaptive and responsive to the game play that takes place around you. Players can further develop their agility through the use of an agility ladder and some basic drills. Below is a YouTube video that provides some suggested patterns for moving through an agility ladder. Even if you don't have a ladder at home, you could easily create one using chalk out on a driveway. You could also create your own pattern and have your family practice it. Take turns and have everyone create their own unique way to move through the ladder.
For those of you that are 4th and 5th graders, I wanted to share some of the activities that I did this past week with my class during our archery unit. We begin with determining what your dominant eye is. To do this point at an object across the room from you with BOTH eyes open. Then close your right eye and if your finger is no longer pointing at that item, then you are right eye dominant. You can do the same test again with both eyes open, point at that same object now close your left eye. If your finger is still pointing at that object then you are truly right eye dominant, if it moved, then you are left eye dominant.
We determine your eye dominance to decide which bow you will use. When we shoot we do instinctual shooting which means there are no sights on the bows with which to line up your shot. We instead use our dominant eye and a consistent anchor point (the corner of your mouth) to help with adjusting the aim of our shot. Below is a video that explains the 11 steps to archery success.
Also below is an archery word search that I created with the important terms or cues that we use in the archery unit. I hope you enjoy looking for the words and remember hearing some of those words in the video you watched.
Archery Word Search.pdfPage updated
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