It's hard to know what to do with active kids on a rainy day! Thankfully, this post has a huge variety of indoor gross motor activities for preschool and kindergarten. No more crazies! #grossmotor #preschool #kindergarten #rainyday #largemotor
These movement activities for preschoolers will build gross motor skills while having fun. Try these ideas at home or at school.
My name is Kalie Schult and I am a PE teacher from Winterse, Iowa. I posted a video of my students playing Strikerball on Twitter for my striking unit in PE and it was a hit! Below I have shared … Read More
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My name is Mark Roucka and I am a PE teacher at Lincoln Junior High School in Naperville, IL. “Head, Shoulders, Knees, Cone” is an activity I have done numerous times with my classes and received a number of positive … Read More
I walked through Wal-Mart yesterday for a few things and was so excited to see the back-to-school supplies were out! Well, the part about school being back in session soon didn't get me excited. It was more the bin full of 25 cent glue sticks. I loaded up on glue sticks, rulers, pencil holders, pens, and pencil sharpeners. I had to get some pool noodles too because I saw Kelly's Throwback Thursday post about using pool noodles as tens and ones for place value. It's linky time again! Click the picture to visit the Ten Linky orginial post. This is a complete side note, but is anyone else having trouble with some of their boards disappearing? This has happened to me more than once. In the middle of creating this post, my science board disappeared. The number of my followers also changed (by about 20). So I made breakfast, did a little bit of laundry, went back to Pinterest and it still isn't there. What?? Some of the science pictures might not work, but you can click on the link below the picture that takes you to the source. Source: Life in First Grade One of our very first social studies units is tall tales. I always struggle to find things that fit into this category that are fun and age appropriate. Paul and his big blue ox, Babe, are always a favorite! Source: Fun 2B in First I had the hardest time finding things for John Henry. This is a free download and it fits the needs of my students perfectly. My students loved this visual aid! It's another freebie. This was one of the first things I made back in December. It's a big hit in my TPT. I hung them up in my room and my students were interested in seeing the different types of landforms. Goes along great with the landforms posters! Even better that it's part of a giveway today! Julie from First Grade Critter Cafe is hosting a giveaway in celebration of her blogging anniversary. If you've ever emailed back and forth with Julie you know how sweet and full of life she is! She also has some AMAZING art projects on her blog. Click the picture below to head straight to the giveaway. Continuing on with the pins... Source: First Grade Wow Great writing connection when you are studying about animals. "If I had animal teeth..." Source: Squished Ideas for Preschool Interactive way to learn the life cycle of an insect! Source: First Grade Wow Great activity to introduce living/nonliving! Except I would have to touch a real worm. Gag!! I have tons more science ideas, but that darn Pinterest isn't working! ***** Amber from School is a Happy Place has a great post about being a no reply blogger. Honestly, I didn't even realize I was when I first started blogging. Click on the picture (isn't it cute??) to visit her blog and make sure you are not a "no reply blogger!" Picture by Amber
Get the kids up and moving with these fun homeschool PE channels! We've got the very best of YouTube rounded up for you. Beat winter blues or boredom!
Check out this BRAIN BREAKS & GAMES resource filled with yoga game task cards, yoga BINGO and yoga sequence cubes! Yoga has benefits for your mind, body and spirit. Yoga in the classroom can maximize the learning process and aid in the development of a child’s interest in health and wellness. You know that when children are feeling anxious or stressed it is nearly impossible to learn. Yoga is a great way to achieve a sense of calm, stress reduction, a positive attitude and self-regulation. This resource will help you integrate yoga in your classroom. Yoga Game Task Cards: -10 games included -no prep -use in your classroom today! Yoga BINGO: -10 unique color game boards - calling cards Yoga Sequence Cubes: - 4 unique yoga cubes (in color and black and white) This document can be found in the following bundle: Yoga in the Classroom & Yoga Brain Breaks and Games BUNDLE
An elementary teaching blog sharing K-3 curriculum resources, teacher tips, fun activities, and inspiration for the lower elementary primary grades.
Creating a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule as a PE Teacher is much different than creating one as a classroom teacher. Not only do you have limited amounts of time with each class, but you see every class and every student throughout the month. Keeping organized is essential and I am sharing some of my favorite ways to do that today, along with some time-saving and sanity-saving resources. Organizing the Year If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out my Scope & Sequence Resources to help you get a big-picture view of your yearly expectations for each grade. Then, it becomes helpful to break everything down into units, especially if you are on a class rotation like my district. I see each class for one-week chunks and we are on a three-week rotation. Because of that, I see each group about twelve times during the year. For this setup, it is easiest to make each unit one to two weeks in length. For some of the more general units like agility, movement, and sportsmanship, I incorporate these throughout the weeks since they help support the more sports-specific units like jump rope, basketball, and soccer. Organizing Your Week This is the first year that our district is going to a modified late-start Wednesday schedule. Now, every class will meet for 50 minutes with a 10 minute break in between except Wednesdays, which will be a 40 minute class with a 5 minute break in between. Every day, I see all grades K-5, so being able to organize the flow of the week also depends on organizing setup time during those few minutes between groups. With less setup time between classes on Wednesdays, and accounting for the shorter meeting time, I am going to make Wednesdays my Game Day since prep-work and supplies can stay relatively consistent between classes. I also like to have a Friday Fun at the end of each week where I will have students rotate in their squads to the cool features in our gym like rope swing, climbing wall, scooters, and rotating stations based on our units, both past and current. That leaves every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday to dive into the units of study and teach skills, work in stations, play mini-games, and incorporate sportsmanship, agility, and assessment. I encourage you to put some of your days like this on "auto-pilot"-- while you will still need to plan them out, the routine makes management easier and builds excitement for the students each week, especially if you only see them once a month-ish like I do. Organizing Your Day While each day is the same, I found as a PE Teacher that I had to be just as organized during my planning time and time in between classes as I was during my teaching time. I see every class every day, so that means that when third grade leaves, I may have a Kindergarten class coming in next. Thankfully, I have a principal who organizes the morning by upper grades (3-5) and afternoons by lower grades (K-2), but equipment needs to be adjusted and stations tweaked to ensure safety and success for each group. This is especially true for stations, which we relied upon heavily last year since it kept kids more separate for COVID protocol. When planning my stations, I try to keep the theme and/or skill pretty much the same in Grades 1-5. I have found Kindergarten to be its own beast, especially the first half of the year, but I will go more in-depth in a leter post. When most of the stations are the same, all I need to do during the transition time is switch out minor things, like the size and/or material of the balls or simplifying the setup with cones or poly spots. I also take pictures of the setups and keep them in my phone, since throughout the next few weeks, I will need to repeat this two more times (since we're on a three-week rotation) for the other classes in that grade. With pictures available, I can double-check when I inevitably forget how a station was setup or which type of equipment I used in second grade versus first grade. Organizing Your Class Just like organizing my week, I like each of my classes to follow a similar structure, K-5. Not only does this build routine and familiarity with the students (especially year to year), but it allows my brain to adjust from one class to the next and not have to worry about planning out 50 minute classes, six times a day, five days a week. I just don't have the bran capacity for that! Each class is 50 minutes long and follows the same general structure: As you can see, the times of these sections range over several minutes and you can use your best guess class-by-class and grade-by-grade to determine what works best. And at the beginning of the year, expect these times to be completely out of whack as you set up routines and expectations. I'll include some tips in a future post about that. My Favorite Planner Some of you have asked where I like to plan everything and, hands down, my favorite teacher planner is from Simplified. I did a huge review of this planner last year that you can read about HERE and watch a walkthrough of on YouTube HERE. This year, there is are updated covers, but the inside remains the same and I found it to be ideal for listing stations, games, accommodations and adjustments, and more for my PE classes last year. Plus, it was so easy to track what activity I had done with what group so I didn't have any repeats or gaps. I used three different colors to plan for each of the groups. *If you have been following me for a while, you know that color coding is my love language! Because of that, it was easy to find what I had done with the group in the previous rotation and make new plans accordingly. As much as I tried to have three identical weeks for each unit, each weeks was just a little different, so being able to keep track of those changes was important. To find out more about the Simplified Teacher Planner, click HERE. What questions do you have about organizing, planning, and scheduling for your year ahead? What suggestions and tips do you have to share? Be sure to leave a comment below and I look forward to hearing from you. Stay well,
PE mashup! We took @ILESPhysEd beanbag stack and @PEbyMrE RPS tennis ball and created RPS beanbag balance! Play RPS – if beat, give up bag and complete 10 jumping jacks. Winner takes bag and balances on head! How many can you stack? @LisaPowers1230 #PhysEd
Follow these five steps to teach a child to read. Helpful for parents, homeschoolers, and teachers that are teaching beginning readers.
Need some refreshing and inspiring ideas for sport skills to teach? Try these simple to set up, self-running PE stations for your class to rotate around. Students work in groups of 2, and in some o…
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If you’re planning to teach your students gymnastics, (check out our gym pack here), they’ll need to know the fundamental shapes to help them develop and progress on the different equipment. Below …
A fun and engaging way to play BINGO! Core Strength Bingo is a must for making movement and core strengthening fun. Feel confident your kids will LOVE this game and so will you! With your purchase you will receive a downloadable PDF file. See more details below!
A fun, active and interesting activity for helping children learn to distinguish left from right.
Illustrated activity sheet describing a really fun whole class activity that involves the children running around pretending to be magic beans and avoiding capture!
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Teach your kids to focus with these 10 simple activities to increase attention span. Learn what the attention span of a preschooler is.
Stuck with ideas to engage your kids in gym class? Why not run these super fun, easy to set up stations for your class to rotate around through, challenge themselves, set personal records and recor…
Freedom Homeschooling lists free homeschool health and P.E. curriculum for all grades. Health, nutrition, exercise, and more!
Your baby is growing up quickly and is having a whale of a time making discoveries and exploring new things. Of course, your excitement to knows no bounds. However, for your child to master important motor skills, it’s vital that she has good bilateral coordination.
Physical Education Lesson Plans Template Beautiful Sample from gymnastics lesson plan template, image source: pinterest.com
