Ahoy Matees!! Look below to check out the fun things we are learning each week here in the Pickett's Mill gym.
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This is my last week as a physical education teacher as I am retiring (after 30 years teaching) and my last day will be Monday, January 29. I have truly loved my time at Pickett's Mill Elementary School and will always have such FANTASTIC memories from my time here. We have such AWESOME students, teachers, staff members and parents here and I couldn't have asked for a better place to have been a teacher.
I am looking forward to the next phase of my life as my wife and I will be fixing up our house and moving to a lake. I am also going to try and get my body into better shape,and play a bunch of golf. Professionally, I want to expand the physical education and health resources I design and teach some online PE classes.
Thanks to everyone here at Pickett's Mill, Bullard and Powder Springs Elementary Schools here in Cobb County.
I have been TRULY been BLESSED!!!
I hope everyone enjoyed our 3 extra "snowy weather" days off last week!!!
After our Jump Rope for Heart event on Monday, we will move on to some new things with a BANG, playing several invasion-type games. We will look at some developmentally appropriate tactics, skills and strategies related to Invasion Games. They are team games where players attempt to invade opponents’ territory, trying to score points, while at the same time, defending their own territory attempting to stop their opponents from scoring.
We will be playing games of "Storm the Castle", "Pirates", "Top Gun" and "Space Invaders"!!!
Time to INVADE the Pickett's Mill Gym!!!!
ATTENTION!!!
Jump Rope for heart has been changed to Monday, January 22 because of our 3 snow/ice days last week!!! You can bring in your envelopes Monday morning and we will give out the Scare Squad Monsters we have in the office and order the other "thank you gifts" by the end of the day!!!
Last week, the students went through several progressions using the individual (short) jump ropes during our PE classes. We did some jumping and landing while the rope was on the ground (in different shapes), we performed several non-jumping (swinging) movements and we began learning some jump rope maneuvers going forward and backward. Many of the little ones learned to actually get over the rope for the first time....excitement at PME!!!
This week, we will continue to learn some individual jump rope skills and the older kids will do some reciprocal teaching (peer teaching) by using jump rope task cards. Sometimes they do a better job teaching each other than when we work in practice style large group situations.
We will also get out the long ropes to jump and land while others turn the rope. We will learn how to jump the snake in the grass, the ocean wave, the pendulum swing, run through, partner jumps and jump rope tag....fun, fun, fun!
Don't forget, this Friday, January 19 will be our 10th Annual Jump Rope for Heart Event.
Last week we came back with a BANG from our short, 2 day week return from Winter Break and we go to use our over-sized inflatable Bowling Pins to play games of "Cone Flip" and King Pin". Tons of MOVEMENT and FUN was evident in the Pickett's Mill Gym!!! .
This week we will begin our Jump Rope Unit where we will focus on on some fun, age-appropriate non-jumping and jumping skills using both long and individual short ropes. We will teach many skills with the rope on the ground and with it turning around our bodies and we will even use task cards and let the students teach each other some skills. Some of the skills are easier than others. It is important that the students progress at their own pace. That's the great thing about jumping rope. There are many ways you can jump and a variety of things that you can do with the rope. The sky's the limit!
Don't forget, on Friday, January 19 we will host Pickett's Mill's, 10th Annual Jump Rope for Heart Event. It will be a lot of fun. We will have some of Pickett's Mill's FINEST Moms and Dads come to jump and turn ropes with us all day!!! Hopefully the students have been able to collect pledges for the American Heart Association and they can start bringing it in on Wednesday, January 17 up into the event day- Friday, January 19th.
Parents, if you have any questions, regarding the Jump Rope for Heart event, email me at [email protected].
This week we will begin the class "KICKING OFF" our 2018 Jump Rope for Heart event. This year our 10th annual event will take place earlier in the year than normal; on Friday, January 19th during the student's Specials classes. We will discuss the reasons why we do Jump Rope for Heart, watch a video about this year's campaign, discuss procedures for getting pledges and we look at the cool "incentives" that the American Heart Association will be providing for those that take part in the "pledge collection" phase of jump Rope for Heart.
After discussing Jump Rope for Heart at the first half of class, we will continue playing some FUN, rotational volleyball and lead-up net games with our students early in the week and for our short days leading to the Winter Holiday we will enjoy some rolling and defending games of SURVIVOR and do some "Rocking Christmas" movement activities.
Busy times, fun times!
Last week, we worked on perfecting our volleyball skills for bumping, setting and serving. We also did some "fast moving" fitness activities and games to get our hearts pumping prior to our v-ball skill development. The younger students used balloons and learned how to keep the balloon up using all parts of their bodies. It was a blast!
This week and next week and part of next week we will continue working on some basic striking skills with our K - 2's. We will also begin to play volleyball over the nets using a rotational format with our 3rd to 5th grade students and a scramble format with our younger aged students. To ensure our students are successful in keeping a volleyball game going, we like to use different sized beach balls depending upon the grade of the students. The older the students, the smaller the beach ball.
This week, we will begin to perfect our volleying skills to prepare for some volleyball lead up games later this week into next week. The 3rd to 5th graders will work in stations and in small groups to perfect their volleyballs skills for "bumping", "setting", and "serving". They will also play some low net or line volleyball games in groups of 4. The younger age students will practice striking balloons and beach balls up in the air using various body parts and will play games of "keep it up". They will also get to hit off of Tee's in fun games of Home Run Derby later on in the week.
SERVE, SET, BUMP......Yah!