This week, students were off Monday and Tuesday (teacher report card writing and election day/Teacher Professional Development). Wednesday was a "regular day" in PE! Thursday and Friday I attended the
SHAPE Michigan Conference in Lansing. SHAPE is the Society of Health and Physical Educators, the professional association for all teaching PE and health. I learned so much from this experience. The
sight word criss cross walk center (pictured below) is just one of many new ideas I'll be implementing from the conference. Sessions I attended included:
- Keynote speaker: John Ratey, author of SPARK
- Fitness Warm-Ups
- PE Classroom Transitions and Management
- I Need it ASAP: Instant Activities for grades 3-6, Pre K-1
- K-12 PE: Station Activity Tool Box
- Tick Tock Beat the Clock
- Physical Activity as Intervention K-4
- Inclusive Games for Elementary PE
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, students did many different activities! These included:
- Y5-2: explored deck rings
- Guard the Pin
- Pins and Baskets
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| Deck rings |
Deck Rings are so much fun to explore! Deck ring activities continue working with manipulative skills, including eye-hand coordination, spatial awareness, dexterity with left and right hand, visual tracking. We named our deck ring "Dexter". For these activities, each student had their own "Dexter" to use for the class period. Students did activities with deck rings that included:
- rolling Dexter around the gym into open space
- holding Dexter on different body parts (arm, elbow, foot, leg, head, etc.)
- stepping over, to the side, in front, behind Dexter
- tossing and catching Dexter:
- favorite hand - catching with favorite hand
- other hand - catching with the same hand
- tossing from favorite hand and catching with other hand, and vice versa
- toss Dexter up and catch it kneeling down
- and more! :)
