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Learning On The Move 2017-18
Here you will find video, visuals, pictures, thoughts, and resources that will help you build a better understanding of what your children are learning in physical education at South Bristol School. If you are interested in taking a look at years gone by, use the links below for archived pages.
Spring 2018
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Winter 2018
Both January and February were not good for Wednesdays and Thursdays this year. I could be wrong but I feel like most of the snow days have fallen on one of those two days. Regardless, the learning in physical education continued even if a bit sporadic... Our Kindergarten students added to our I Can... chart in a number of different ways. They continue to work to build basic skills and I dare say I'm thinking there are a few rope jumpers getting ready. Everyone can rhythmically jump the long rope and everyone is making progress with their individual ropes. They all continue to build locomotor movement patterns and all manipulative skills. A highlight for this group was building one of our story games in which students apply strategies and concepts to be successful. This story game involved a shark, some fish and the ability to use quick changes of speed, direction and pathway to create an evasive maneuver to create a fake out! What fun we had learning.
First and second grade students focused work in the area of striking skills and activities. They worked with our finger light balls and were involved in striking with different body parts and foam paddles. I taught them some activities to test their skills and they had time to create some child designed games with a striking and volleying focus. During these lessons students worked hard to develop a ready position in regards to striking activities. In addition to this students worked to develop an understanding of the different fitness components of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance and flexibility with a call and move activity. Most recently this group also worked to develop evasive maneuvers and develop a better understanding of offense and defense in basic invasion games.
As is tradition, third and fourth grade students worked to build inline skating skills and develop an understanding of balance in relation to one's base of support. Each student worked from their portfolio as they identified personal learning targets and tracked improvement. I facilitated the process with check ins with each student. I hope you get a chance to watch some of the video below.
Fifth through eighth grade students were all involved in a net & wall games unit. The focus was on etiquette, strategy and skill. Most Wednesdays we explored etiquette and strategy in a variety of net games students had not participated in before. These activities required them to use skills they already had developed in order to let the focus be on strategy. On Thursday's lesson students were lucky to have an opportunity to learn from Cinda & Chantelle, the tennis pros for CLC. Students had an opportunity to develop forehand, backhand and volley skills and were involved in a great number of tennis activities. We finished up the unit with Cardio Tennis. These are large group game based activities that keep everyone moving designed to combine tennis skills with the fitness component of cardiorespiratory endurance. Partway through the tennis lessons we sent a notice home of free cardio-tennis opportunities for students in grades 5-8. I'm not sure if anyone has taken advantage of it but through March all students can participate free on Thursday nights from 5-6PM. And there is also a family tennis time on Saturdays you can check into if interested. It would be a fun way to get active with the family!
I was able to capture the video seen below. I hope you have a chance to watch some of it.
Yours for healthy, happy & active children,
Liz Giles-Brown
First and second grade students focused work in the area of striking skills and activities. They worked with our finger light balls and were involved in striking with different body parts and foam paddles. I taught them some activities to test their skills and they had time to create some child designed games with a striking and volleying focus. During these lessons students worked hard to develop a ready position in regards to striking activities. In addition to this students worked to develop an understanding of the different fitness components of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance and flexibility with a call and move activity. Most recently this group also worked to develop evasive maneuvers and develop a better understanding of offense and defense in basic invasion games.
As is tradition, third and fourth grade students worked to build inline skating skills and develop an understanding of balance in relation to one's base of support. Each student worked from their portfolio as they identified personal learning targets and tracked improvement. I facilitated the process with check ins with each student. I hope you get a chance to watch some of the video below.
Fifth through eighth grade students were all involved in a net & wall games unit. The focus was on etiquette, strategy and skill. Most Wednesdays we explored etiquette and strategy in a variety of net games students had not participated in before. These activities required them to use skills they already had developed in order to let the focus be on strategy. On Thursday's lesson students were lucky to have an opportunity to learn from Cinda & Chantelle, the tennis pros for CLC. Students had an opportunity to develop forehand, backhand and volley skills and were involved in a great number of tennis activities. We finished up the unit with Cardio Tennis. These are large group game based activities that keep everyone moving designed to combine tennis skills with the fitness component of cardiorespiratory endurance. Partway through the tennis lessons we sent a notice home of free cardio-tennis opportunities for students in grades 5-8. I'm not sure if anyone has taken advantage of it but through March all students can participate free on Thursday nights from 5-6PM. And there is also a family tennis time on Saturdays you can check into if interested. It would be a fun way to get active with the family!
I was able to capture the video seen below. I hope you have a chance to watch some of it.
Yours for healthy, happy & active children,
Liz Giles-Brown
3 & 4 Near The Beginning Of The Unit
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Grades 1 & 2 Strike/Volley
7 & 8 Cardio Tennis
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The bulk of time during November and December was spent on building individual skills for all grade levels. The focus and the skills varied from grade level to grade level but as you can tell from the videos the set up remained basically the same. The skills revolved around 4 themes: body balance, object balance, object manipulation, and body control. Students in grades K-2 spent time working to meet criteria for success (10 seconds or 10 repetitions) and then finding ways to individually challenge those basic skills. They spent time working alone and making decisions with others. Grades 3-8 continued working through our the learning progression I have developed that simultaneously teaches the basics of how the brain learns. Donald Hebb, a canadian neuropsychologist coined the phrase "neurons that fire together wire together". We have been using the terms - fire, wire, store, challenge & expand along with visual images to guide the process. Grades 3 & 4 worked from a class visual, identifying skills they would like to develop and then working through learning progressions. I was able to capture some videos of their work. Grades 5-8 worked from their individual portfolios, making choices and tracking their progress. I worked to facilitate the process, providing structure, instruction and resources (Freestyle Moving). Below you will find some of the equipment the students were working with and some video that was captured.
First & Second Grade Unit Visual
Video K-8
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Jump Rope Skills K-4
Two weeks before the holiday break students in K-4 spent a two lesson focus on jump rope skills. Kindergarten students were introduced to the long rope and began working on their individual rope jumping learning progression. Students in grades 1 through 4 had a number of individual, partner and group jump rope skill choices. The criteria for success for each was 10 repetitions without error. Students worked to track their own progress.
Reindeer Training 2017 K-4
Each year right before the holiday break, students in grades K-4 put their physical and social skills to work in our annual Reindeer Training Stations. They choose their names and work cooperatively with partners to set a base score on the first day and then beat their records on the second day. I captured some video of this year's challenges.
Oops... A little bit of Frosty Ball (see below) found its way into the end of this video!
Frosty Ball - 5-8Students in grades 5-8 have their own challenge during the lessons before holiday break. They work to build collaborative skills in consensus decision-making by participating on teams in our annual Frosty Ball Team Activities. Frosty Ball is a North Pole Game that involves teams in building offensive and defensive team strategy. It's a fun way to build the consensus decision-making skills necessary for group work in any setting. I captured a little bit of grade 5-6 as seen to the right.
Quote For A New Year"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." ~ Neil Gaiman
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FALL 2017
Commitment To A Safe & Positive Learning Experience For All |
Physical, social and emotional safety is the foundation on which learning takes place. We started the year by taking a look at the values and behaviors that help make a safe and positive experience. Students are working on learning how to keep these commitments during each class. Each students makes chooses a personal commitment to focus on at the beginning of each class period.
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Routines |
The routines we set at the beginning of the year helps us use our time as efficiently as possible. As students enter the gym for each class period they can read the routine posters which includes directions and images. The picture to the right is the routine poster for 1st through 4th grade students. Part of their routine each day is to use their magnet to choose a personal commitment. They also connect to fitness by creating a dynamic warm-up that challenges balance and flexibility and gradually increases heart rate.
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Opportunities To Partner With Everyone |
One of the standards for physical education is to exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others. Giving students opportunities to partner with all other students in the class helps them work to develop these skills. Part of the enter routine has students check the board to see who their partner will be for that class period. The amount of time they work with their partner
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Use
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We use the flip chart to center our learning around a big transferable idea. One reason for this is to help students take what they are learning in the classroom and find ways to apply it to their learning or performance in other areas of their lives.
Grades 1 & 2Students in grads 1 & 2 have been working to build and challenge the motor skills of rolling, tossing, catching and throwing. We will continue to work from this visual throughout the year as it is a focus at this age level to build a strong skill foundation on which to build. "Think-abouts" help students focus on efficient mechanics with the intent of building automatic efficient movement patterns. I use the term "body look-for" as an alternative term for mature mechanics. Students understand that the "body look-fors" are what an observer can see them doing if they are performing the skill efficiently.
Grades 3 & 4Students in grades 3 & 4 have been spending class time further building manipulative skills and having opportunities to apply those skills to dynamic activities where they can also begin applying tactics and strategy. We will also be working from this visual as students learn the basic neuroscience of learning as they build and challenge individual skills. This idea of building neural networks can applies to all learning.
Grades 5 & 6Games of invasion is a broad category of games that encompass any activity in which one team attempts to invade the space of another team with the intent of scoring while the other team attempts to stop them and gain possession of the scoring implement. The focus of our unit this fall has been to become tactical thinkers and apply that thinking to any game of invasion.
KindergartenWhat a wonderful time we have been having in Kindergarten as students learn and explore movement. Kindergarten students have learned how to "body brain storm," answer "Can you?" questions with moving answers, move safely with others into open spaces, different locomotor movements, and how to complete "I can..." statements at the end of class. These statements help them reflect on what we have been learning in class. They have also started a unifying activity called "muscle up" in which they begin learning the names of the major muscles of the body. Ask them to share!
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Grades 1 & 2Grades 3 & 4Grades 5-8Kindergarten |