Physical Education Curriculum
JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN & KINDERGARTEN
- Develop motor skills and movement skills
- Learn basic body parts and basic muscles
- Participate in movement, rhythmic activities, simple games, relays, singing games, stunts, and tumbling
- Completion of steps in a series including individual and team activities
- Reviewing healthy habits: nutrition, physical activity and mental attitude
- Practicing setting a good example and being a good leader
- Learning to participate in and demonstrate constructive competition
- Understand the importance of safety considerations
- Introduce several stretches
- Introduce Christian behaviors including sportsmanship, team play, and best effort
GRADE ONE
- Continue to develop motor skills and movement skills
- Introduce individual and dual sports emphasizing constructive competition
- Participate in movement, rhythmic activities, simple games, relays, singing games, stunts, and tumbling
- Build on completing directions and steps successfully within activity
- Reviewing healthy habits: nutrition, physical activity and mental attitude
- Continued utilization of sportsmanship, teamwork, best effort and role modeling
- Using trust, patience and tolerance to build teamwork
- Activities tailored to aid hand and foot coordination
- Exercises designed to build and tone muscle groups
- Prolonged activity to develop stamina and endurance
- Understand the importance of safety conditions
GRADE TWO
- Continue to develop motor skills and movement skills
- Introduce and review team sports emphasizing constructive competition while following rules and regulations
- Build on completing directions individually and as a group to achieve desired outcomes
- Reviewing healthy habits: nutrition, physical activity and mental attitude
- Sportsmanship, teamwork, best effort and role modeling displayed constantly and effectively
- Introduction of strategy and creative thinking within activities
- Activities designed to build gross and fine hand-eye and foot-eye coordination
- Using trust, patience and tolerance to build teamwork
- Exercises designed to build and tone muscle groups
- Prolonged activity to develop stamina and endurance
- Introduction to cardiovascular and aerobic concepts while exercising
- Review the importance of safety conditions
GRADE THREE
Continue to develop motor skills and movement skills
Traditional team sports and sports adaptation
Continue to develop motor skills and movement skills
- Continue to develop motor skills and movement skills
- Review team sports with addition of more rules
- Review the importance of proper fitness and wellness during school and at home
- Sportsmanship, teamwork, best effort, role modeling and constructive competition displayed constantly and effectively
- Develop strategy and creative thinking skills within activities
- Activities designed to build gross and fine hand-eye and foot-eye coordination
- Emphasis placed on teamwork through communication and helping one another (steps to becoming better leaders)
- Importance of self-control and personal responsibility highlighted throughout the year
- Exercises designed to build and tone muscle groups
- Prolonged activity to develop stamina and endurance
- Reviewing cardiovascular and aerobic concepts utilizing heart rate
- Reinforce the importance of safety conditions with the addition of basic outdoor precautions (I.E. sunblock)
GRADE FOUR
- Traditional team sports and sports adaptations
- Reinforce importance of proper fitness and wellness during school and at home
- Sportsmanship, teamwork, best effort, role modeling and constructive competition displayed constantly and effectively
- Increase complex problem solving and creative thinking skills
- Intermediate and advanced hand-eye and foot-eye exercises and drills
- Review importance of communication and helping teammates for successful results
- Self-control and personal responsibility displayed through student’s personal choices and reactions
- Setting goals for physical fitness levels and mental attitude
- Exercises designed to build and tone individual muscles and muscle groups
- Prolonged activity to increase cardiovascular strength and endurance
- Aerobic activity to burn fat and tone muscles
- Reinforce the importance of safety conditions with the addition of basic first aid precautions and what to do in an emergency
GRADE FIVE
Traditional team sports and sports adaptation
- Traditional team sports and sports adaptation
- Reinforce importance of proper fitness and wellness during school and at home
- Sportsmanship, teamwork, best effort, role modeling, constructive competition, self-control and personal responsibility required constantly
- Reviewing instances and examples from life where sportsmanship, teamwork, best effort etc. have been challenged
- Increase complex problem solving and creative thinking skills by applying prior knowledge and teamwork
- Intermediate and advanced hand-eye and foot-eye exercises and drills
- Setting goals for physical fitness levels and mental attitude
- Exercises designed to build and tone individual muscles and muscle groups
- Prolonged activity to increase cardiovascular strength and endurance
- Aerobic activity to burn fat and tone muscles
- Reinforcing ideas of personal responsibility and hard work as students prepare to enter the middle school
- Reinforce the importance of safety conditions (reviewing outdoor safety, basic first aid and what to do in an emergency)
