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Students met twice a week this term for Physical Education class. Students worked on improving cardiovascular and muscular fitness by running laps and doing push-ups and sit-ups each class period. Soccer was the first unit of the term. Students worked on improving their dribbling, shooting, passing, and defensive skills through games and drills. Students also participated in a one-mile run, sit-up, and flexibility test this past term. After the soccer unit, students learned/reviewed flag football rules and skills (throwing, catching, running with the ball, punting). In addition to learning sports skills, students focused on working with classmates of diverse athletic experiences. Throughout games good sportsmanship was always stressed. The first unit of term two is team handball. Students will not receive a term grade; instead they will receive a semester grade for Physical Education.
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Students continued to do push-up, sit-ups and timed runs every Physical Education class to work on improving their muscular and cardiovascular endurance. The first unit in term two was team handball. Students learned rules and skills required to play team handball. After team handball, volleyball was covered. Students worked on improving bumping, setting and serving skills while learning volleyball game rules. The last unit of term two was basketball. Students participated in many competitive and non-competitive drills to improve their ball handling, shooting, lay-up, passing and defensive skills. Students also participated in a lay-up skills test. Students were constantly working on learning to participate with students of diverse athletic experiences and good sportsmanship was always stressed. The first unit of term three will be floor hockey.
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Students continued to work on developing muscular and cardiovascular strength by doing push-ups, crunches, and timed runs each class period. The first unit of term three was floor hockey. Stick handling, shooting, passing, and goal tending skills were reviewed for understanding and then students played a floor hockey game. After floor hockey was badminton. Racquet skills, such as the smash, serve; overhead, backhand, drop and forehand shots were covered during class discussions and demonstrations. Students were given practice time to improve their racquet skills to prepare for a modified badminton game. The last unit of term three was the Fitness unit. Students worked on understanding various exercises that can improve their coordination, speed, flexibility, and endurance. Fifth and sixth grade students also learned about aerobic fitness by following along with a Taebo video while the 7th and 8th graders learned about dance and light weight dumbbell exercises. Lacrosse is the first unit in term four.
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The first unit of term four was Lacrosse. Students were introduced to cradling, picking up groundballs, throwing, and catching skills before playing a modified lacrosse game. Students also learned about softball. Students practiced throwing, catching, hitting and fielding fly balls and groundballs before learning about softball game rules and playing a game. After softball, Frisbee skills were practiced and an Ultimate Frisbee game was played. The last unit of term four was the game unit. Students worked on coming up with strategies as well as working together during the game unit. The game unit consisted of a variety of running games that involved teamwork. Every class period students continued to complete timed runs, crunches, and push-ups to work on developing cardiovascular and muscular strength. The mile run was completed for the second time during term four. Students also did a one-minute sit-up test to measure their abdominal strength.